Pilot 7 - Develop new round goby food products for human consumption

Pilot 7 is all about developing new tasty round goby food products. It is also an attempt to facilitate the start-up of a local value chain for underused domestic fish that is not traditionally consumed. Although the product development will take place in Sweden, GMU together with the Port of Władysławowo will organize an awareness-raising event gathering relevant stakeholders to taste the different Round Goby products.

Pilot owner: Marine Centre Simrishamn

Participating partners: Skillinge Fisk, Branteviks Fisk, Kalmar Municipality, GMU, Port of Władysławowo

Method:

Together with chefs and smoking experts, our project partners and fish processing companies Skillinge Fisk and Branteviks Fisk will develop and showcase all kinds of round goby products: smoked whole fish, fillets as well as minced fish. The fish will mainly come from the test fishing done in Pilots 1-4 but bought frozen will also be used to ensure that there are enough raw materials for product development. The developed products will be tasted and showcased in local restaurants and fish shops. The products will also sent on to Kalmar Municipality for trials in their public kitchens.

Skillinge Fisk and Branteviks Fisk will also test the most suitable and cost-efficient processing machines to gut and mince the round goby. The plan is to use small volumes between 600 to 1 200 kg fish during three years. The minced fish will be used by our Swedish partners to develop a round goby product suitable for large-scale production, such as fish burgers. This will then be used in Pilot 8. Potential customers could be school kitchens and other public kitchens, via wholesalers. At same time SE partners will also try more small-scale product development with the minced fish, together with chefs and experts in smoking fish.

Progress (Oct 2024):

The project coordinators, Marine Centre Simrishamn bought frozen Round Goby from Estonia to secure enough raw material for our fish processing companies to develop new products. Soon Skillinge Fisk and Branteviks Fisk will test filleting round goby with Herring filleting machines to optimize processing. They will also provide chefs working at Kalmar Municipality with round goby to test during the annual Sustainability week in mid-October.

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