Incidence of Formalin in Fishes in Asian Countries: Some Solutions

摘要

Asia is the home of world aquaculture as it accounts for about 89 percent of world aquaculture production of fish for human consumption in the past two decades (FAO 2016). The major contributing factors in achieving this production are quality seed and feed availability, intensive husbandry practices, disease prophylaxis and cheap labor in Asian countries. But at the same time, development of post-harvestfacilities for handling and processing this huge production has been outpaced by growth of aquaculture. From the production points, most of the fish is consumed within the countries where it is produced or exported to other countries.