Potential Utilization of Scallop Viscera Silage for Solid Waste Management and as a Feedstuff for Swine

摘要

Waste management has been identified as a major problem which will threaten the economic security of Florida's seafood industry within the next ten years (1). One of the primary concerns is treatment and disposal of solid wastes resulting from seafood processing. Average mechanical scallop processing yields about 70% shell, 23% viscera and 7% edible meat (2). The wet viscera portion represents a putrescent disposal problem. Utilization of scallop viscera as silage, much like that developed for waste fish and fish offal (3,4), could represent a practical solid waste treatment option which offers the additional benefit of a protein feed supplement for production of swine.