KVASS
Automated quality assessment of headed/gutted whitefish
The purpose of this project was to make a commersial solution for measuring blood in whitefish prior to filleting.
Start
01. May 2018
End
31. Oct 2019
Funded by
The Norwegian Seafood Research Fund - FHF
Cooperation
Norsk Elektrooptikk (NEO), Maritech Systems, Lerøy Norway Seafoods, Havfisk AS
Project Manager(s):
Automated quality assessment of headed/gutted (HG) whitefish is of high importance for the whitefish industry.
The solution is based on imaging spectroscopy and analytical methods developed at Nofima. The commercial product will be a part of Maritech, and will include a new industrial version of the hyperspectral imager produced by Norsk Elektro Optikk.
The first prototype operated Lerøy Norway Seafoods, Båtsfjord. A second prototype was installed in a trawler from Havfisk.
The commercial product was launched as planned in 2020, and very well received by industry actors and the minister of Fisheries and Seafood.
Research areas