Hello Solanki,

There are so many methods available for preserving the Bombay duck. Since this fish is regional based very little scope for chilled marketing. You can think about solar tends, Mechanical dryers for drying the fish in rainy seasons. Here i suggest to focus for cleaned fish in to split pieces and dry. so, more money can be gained. Other things like protein powder, protein hydrolysates etc also good options. The main constraint is that it required more investment and infrastructure facilities

Thank you sir for answering

A fluidized bed dryer can be an option to dry the fish in different temperature settings.

Dear All,

Jitesh Solanki

Bombay duck is most popular as salted and sun dried fish and also as canned fish(for export).

Sun drying is obviously restricted in rainy season but mechanical drying using cabinet dryer/tray dryer or may be fluidised bed dryer is a good option though the cost will be little higher as compared to conventional sun drying as the latter is still adopted on very large scale in India.

Processing Bombay duck having such a great commercial value for processing it into protein powder/protein concentrate/protein isolate cannot be considered as a wise idea.

Regards,

I cannot fully agree with the above comment. Protein powder is one of the high demand product in nutraceutical market. Compared with other protein sources fish protein is superior and more preferred in functional food sector. In India, still people are selling Bombay duck in traditional sundried form and its value realization is comparatively lower

Dear Dr. KA Martin Xavier,

My point of view is simply this.

Those fish varieties which fetch more price by direct selling should not diverted in to the processing of protein concentrate.

There are several other varieties which can be processed to recover protein out of them.

Regards,