Automation in the fish industry

作者：Hildur Einarsdóttir, Bergur Guðmundsson, Valdimar Ómarsson · 发表于：Animal Frontiers · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1093/af/vfac020 · 被引用次数：25 · 研究领域：Food Supply Chain Traceability、Water Quality Monitoring Technologies

• The fish industry has historically been a labor-intensive field, requiring skilled staff to process whole fish into consumable products. • The introduction of automation in food production has been at a slower pace compared with conventional manufacturing industries such as automotive due to the organic variation present in food products. • Recent advances in automated inspection, artificial intelligence, and robotics are transforming the food production industry, introducing new automation capabilities that can potentially increase throughput and yield. Historically food processing has been labor-intensive, with the seafood industry being no exception. Until recently, the biggest share of seafood production comes from wild harvest with a large variety of species and different raw material conditions, subject to natural fluctuation and handling of the catch. Mathiesen (2012) stated that a considerable number of the world population have their employment linked to the fish industry in some way, be that primary production, processing, packaging, distribution, etc. The production of seafood from raw material to consumable products requires skilled people for filleting, trimming, peeling, and visual parasite and quality control. The largest wild fish resources are often located in remote or scarcely populated areas, and the same applies to some of the best salmon aquaculture sites. The fish industry, therefore, often deals with significant challenges in finding people willing t...