Researchers have developed machines which can automatically remove all bones from fish fillets.
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The innovation could lead to the halving of jobs in this sector of the industry.
Machines have been able to handle fish spines, but pin bone removal has remained a manual task. To ensure the efficiency of the machines each fillet goes under an X-ray device, which locates any bones that the picking process may have missed.
The devices have been tested for several months at a Norway Seafoods plant in Stamsund.
The machines allow for 4-6% more of the fillet surviving the boning process, according to senior researcher Karsten Heia.
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By GlobalDataThe technology has been developed by Fiskeriforskning (Fishery Research), part of the Norut Group LTD, which consists of five research institutes in Tromsø and Narvik.
