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Translation Series No. 2315 Pi«T ARCHIVES FISHERIES RESEARCH BOARD OF CANADA Translation Series No. 2315 Pi«T Technological and chemical characteristics of fish from the Pacific Basin .by I.V. Kizevetter Original title: Tekhnologicheskaya i khimicheskaya kharakteristika promyslovykh ryb Tikhookeanskogo basseina From: Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno-Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii (TINRO) (Proceedings of the Pacific Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography), Vladivostock, :3-24, 1971 Translated by the Translation Bureau(JW) Foreign Languages Division Department of the Secretary of State of Canada Department of the Environment Fisheries Research Board of Canada Halifax Laboratory Halifax, N.S. 197.g 42 pages typescript / Ile DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE SECRÉTARIAT D'ÉTAT i • , TRANSLATION BUREAU ere';‘ BUREAU DES TRADUCTIONS re4* MULTILINGUAL SERVICES DIVISION DES SERVICES CANADA DIVISION • MULTILINGUES TR.ANSLATED FROM TRADUCTION DE INTO EN Russian English AUTHOR - AUTEUR 1. V. Kizevetter TITLE IN ENGLISH TITRE ANGLAIS Chemical and Technological Characteristics of Fish from the Pacific Basin TITLE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE (TRANSLITERATE FOREIGN CHARACTERS) TITRE EN LANGUE ÉTRANGÉRE (TRANSCRIRE EN CARACTÈRES ROMAINS) Tekhnologicheskaya i Khimicheskaya Kharakteristika Promys1ovykh Ryb Tikhookeanskogo Basseina REFERENCE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE (NAME OF BOOK OR PUBLICATION) IN FULL. TRANSLITERATE FOREIGN CHARACTERS. RÉFÉRENCE EN LANGUE ÉTRANGÉRE (NOM DU LIVRE OU PUBL ) CATION), AU COMPLET, TRANSCRIRE EN CARACTÈRES ROMAINS. TINRO REFERENCE IN ENGLISH RÉFÉRENCE EN ANGLAIS TINRO PUBLISHER ÉDITEUR PAGE NUMBERS IN ORIGINAL DATE OF PUBLICATION NUMÉROS DES PAGES DANS Dal'izdat DATE DE PUBLICATION L'ORIGINAL 3-24 YEAR ISSUE NO. VOLUME PLACE OF PUBLICATION ANNÉE NUMÉRO NUMBER OF' TYPED PAGES LIEU DE PUBLICATION NOMBRE DE PAGES DACTYLOGRAPHIÉES Vladivostok, USSR not not 1971 given given 42 REQUESTING DEPARTMENT Env I ronment TRANSLATION BUREAU NO. 143538 MINISTÉRECLIENT NOTRE DOSSIER N 0 BRANCH OR DIVISION Fisheries Service(Jffiee of Ed vf ànANSLATOR (INITIA LS) J111 DIRECTION OU DIVISION TRADUCTEUR (INITIA LES) PERSON REQUESTING Mr. John Camp Administrator DEMANDÉ PAR Ws1E1:?11D TP..1■1:`...;LATION only YOUR NUMBER IMD ivik>rmeion VOTRE DOSSIER N 0 • TP..e'.-5'.5CT"k..7.;•1 ON REVISI:U DATE OF REQUEST 12/10/72 DATE DE LA DEMANDE SOS.200.10.6 (REV. 2/66) 71530.21.029-533S ub 8 DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE SECRÉTARIAT D'ÉTAT TRANSLATION BUREAU BUREAU DES TRADUCTIONS MULTILINGUAL SERVICES DIVISION DES SERVICES DIVISION C AN A DA MULTILINGUES CLIENT E S NO. DEPARTMENT DI VISION/BRANCH CI TY H 0 DU CLIENT MINISTÉRE DIVISION/DIRECTION VILLE Environment Fisheries Service Ottawa BUREAU NO. LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR (INI TIALS) 140 DU BUREAU LANGUE TRADUCTEUR (INITIALES) . 143538 Russian JW NOV 1 6 11, Chemical and Technological Characteristics of Fish from the Pacific Basin UDC: 664.95 by I.V.Kizevetter (Doctor of Technical . Sciences, Professor) UNEDITED TRANSLATION For inFormon only Preface TRPell:fl.)N MON RWSUE The Soviet fishing industry of the Pacific bisin.:.lia§ 1=!':ement and is encountering a variety of marine life ranging from numerous species of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and mammals, to sea weeds. Fish constitute the basis (78--82%) for the Soviet fishing industry in this area. The large variety of commercial fish constitute a raw material that essentially differs in chemical composition and technological properties. Hence in order to process these catches efficiently and economically it is important to understand some- thing about their mechanical, physical, and chemical properties. The appearance of the 21st volume of TINRO NEWS (1942), which contained the first summary of a study of the chemical and technological properties of fish from the Far East, has been followed by other wide-ranging, systematic investigations. The data resulting from these studies have enabled us to establish more precisely the chemical composition and technological assets 7530 .2 I -029-5332 of traditional fish catches in the Far East as well as of numerous species from different areas of the Pacific frequented by the Soviet fishing fleet. We studied numerous species from the western and eastern zone of the North Pacific, from the eastern areas down to the tropic latitudes, including species from the Korea Strait, the East China Sea, and from the Gulf of Tonkin. We also investigated fish species caught in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean, off the coast of western Australia in the Great Australian Bight and off the coastof New Zealand. In recent years research conducted at the laboratories of our Far East fishing industry has resulted in important data on the technological characteristics of fish from that area. Finally, new research on the chemical composition' of commercial species from the Pacific area has also been published in foreign countries. Our goal is to summarize the fragmented data and to identify the aims of technological research. The combined data will be a useful reference for the technologists and merchandizers of our Far East fishing industry. In compiling this summary we cnnsulted the data already, published by members of TINRO, technological reports of the scientific archives of TINRO, and numerous sources (see bibliography) dealing with the chemical composition and technological assets of commercial fish encountered in the fishing areas of the Pacific basin. 3. In order to arrange the extensive factual material, we adopted the system presently used in the zoological classification of fish. The content and structure of individual divisions and chapters were predetermined by the volume of pertinent data. Fish bodies, as is known, consist of tissues made up of biophilous and biogenic substances which make up the structural material and foodstuffs of the hydrobiont. The bulk of organic substances that participate in the biochemical processes of synthesis and decomposition appear to be very unstable. As a result there is an ongoing change in the chemical composition of the tissues of the fish body; this change is regulated mainly by biological causes. No less significant are the chemical changes occurring in fish tissue posthumously,when tissue enzymes and microorganisms and various external factors (temperature, the oxygen of the air, sun light and so on) begin to affect the body. Posthumous changes in chemical composition and in the property of unprocessed fish enormously affect the latter's technological characteristics, and research in this area is significant enough to deserve a separate chapter. An investigation into tissue composition of various commercial fish may be desireable for the purpose of establishing qualitative characteristics, or for determining the quantity either of individual elements (establishment of basic chemical comp.), or of individual substances, or groups of substances, that form part of the material under study (establishment of combined chemical composition). Both these approaches, besides being of important biochemical and biological significance, also have considerable practical value. They make it possible to determine the rate at which the nutritive and technological qualities of the fish are changing, measued by time and ocation of a given catch, and thus determine its most efficient use. In our research the second approach predominated; the chemical analyses were conducted according to well-known methods. Along with preparing the materials for chemical analysis, the parts of the fish were also correlated by weight. In this area numerous tasks were carried out especially by V. Bogachev, M. Borisova, I. Varpakhovskii, V. Gotovets, P. Kantemirov, B. Kalinin, E. Kleie, E. Koshubo, A. Lisachenko, O. Omeryanenko and I. Frolov. The chemical analyses were conducted by the following members of the technological and chemical laboratories of TINRO: V. Adistanova G. Gudaeva I. Varpakhovskii M. Borisova L. Bukhryakova R. Velichanskaya V. Bochkareva L. Vakulyuk V. Vinogradova L. Vysotskaya A. Krivets A. Podoba V. Gaivoronskaya E. Lagovskaya Z. Repina A. Glinkova O. Legen'ko M. Reshetnyak V. Gordievskaya A. Lisachenko N. Rublevskaya A. Dvinina V. Mas t ic() V. Rudakova G. Dolbish O. Mel T nikova A. Semenova T. Dyupina A. Men'shutina N. Skorobogatova G. Ermakova K. Mershina N. Strashuk A. Zyulina Ya. Mikulich M. Syromyatnikova 5. T. Ivanyushina L. Milanina M. Sycheva (Soboleva) V. Mikhaleva (Vakhrusheva) P. Kozakova A. Myaksha A. Teplitskaya S. Kanevskaya V. Myasoedova T. Udelova E. Kaletina E. Nagibko G. Fil'e A. Kirillova E. Nasedkina N. Firsov E. Kleie I. Nikitina N. Khalina L. Konysheva N. Nikonova O. Kholosha T. Korenchuk O. Omel'yanenko L. Khorynskaya A. Koroleva E. Ochkurova R. Shikhanova E. Koshubo E. Pavlyuchenko T. Shurga A. Krasnitskaya V. Petrochenko L. Ertel' In compiling the tables, we saw no need to calculate arithmetical mean values, since we assumed that the indicated ranges within which the various changes in size, weight, chemical composition, and so on, occurred would be sufficient for an objective evaluation of the technological properties of the fish. Readers who may wish to comment on the content of this article should address their correspondence to: The TINRO Editorial Staff, 20 Lenin Street, Vladivostok, USSR. f 6. I. Cyclostomata Lampreys (Petromyzontidae). The lamprey family includes 8 genera of protozoans, having an elongated, almost cylindrical, body which lacks scales but which is copiously covered with mucus. In Far East waters there are
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