Development of a low commercial value fish-sausage from the fish trawling “mix” category
Due to the low selectivity and the small mesh sizes of the traditional nets, shrimp trawling has become responsible for the largest catches of accompanying fauna among all fishing modalities in the world. Part of the species caught as accompanying fauna are selected and marketed in the “mix” category, basically composed of low value species and some small, commercially important, species (Castro & Yamaguti, 2000). The volume of the “mix” category is significant, since it has become an alternative to improve the value of trawling fisheries, due to the depletion of marine fish stocks (Perez et al., 2010).