Product Description

– Common Name: Japanese Thread Fin Bream

– Alternative Names: Whiptal Bream; False Snapper

– Scientific name: Nemipterus japonicas

– Process type: Whole Round

– Size Range: 100/200 & 200/300 gms

– Packing in bulk / 8/10 kgs per box

– Form: Fresh Chilled

– Method of Catch: TBB- Beam Trawls.

– Fishing Zone: FAO 051

Consist of the family Nemipteridae within the order Perciformes. Nemipterids are carnivorous bottom-living fishes feeding mainly on other small fishes, cephalopods, crustaceans, and polychaetes. Used highly in the production of Surimi in factories across the world. Literally “ground meat” – refers to a paste made from fish or other meat, as well as multiple Asian foods that use surimi as its primary ingredient. It is available in many shapes, forms, and textures, and often used to mimic the texture and color of the meat of lobster, crab, and other shellfish.

The most common surimi product in the Western market is imitation crab meat. Such a product often is sold as krab, imitation crab and mock crab in the United States, and as seafood sticks, crab sticks, fish sticks or seafood extender inCommonwealth nations. In Britain the product is sometimes known as Ocean sticks, to avoid trading standards issues regarding mis-advertisement.

Main Diagnostic Features: Upper lobe of caudal fin slightly longer than lower lobe and produced into a short or moderately long yellow filament. A prominent red-suffused yellow blotch below origin of lateral line. Eleven or twelve pale golden yellow stripes along body from behind head to base of caudal fin.

Cooking Tips: Threadfin bream has fine-textured flesh and a sweet, delicate flavour. The best methods of cookery for whole fish are steaming, baking or barbecuing – wrapped in foil or banana leaves.