The Battalion College Station (Brazos County)', Texas
Tuesday, March 24,1959
' PAGE 3
New Fish Processing Method
Developed By A&M Scientist
Billions of tons of small, rough
fish, taken in nets of commercial
shrimp and fishing boats each
year, may soon be converted from,
one of commercial fishing’s big
gest liabilities to a profitable en
terprise—as the result of an in
vention announced here today.
Dr. W. ,W. Meinke, manager of
the Chemurgic Laboratory of the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Lucretia Borgia, hostess, says:
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Station, has developed a method
of scaling and gutting small fish,
without the use of machinery.
Meinke places the small fish in
an enzyme solution, and„ by regu
lating time, temperature and enzy
me concentration, brings out fish
carcasses free of scahes and vis
cera. Only the bones and meat
remain on these fish; viscera and
scales go off into solution, the
latter to be separated for produc
tion of scale and bone meal, and
the former to be kept in solution
as fish solubles.
The new method is expected to
cut man-hour requirements in
plants processing fish for food, to
be of potential economics import
ance in the sardine and mackerel
canning industry, and to open mar
kets for products made from the
small “waste” f5sh that have been
thrown over th^e side in commer
cial fishing operations in the past.
Meinke points out that his gut
ting and scaling operation works
on a principle similar to that used
in tenderizing meat. Whole small
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STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF
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COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK
AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS
March 12, 1959
RESOURCES
Cash
.$1,144,034.73
U. S. Government Bonds
- 817,731.78
Municipal Bonds
. 131,091.32
Stock Federal Reserve Bank
6,000.00
Loans
. 1,740,865.32
Banking House :
38,577.00
Furniture and Fixtures
18,000.00
Other Real Estate Owned
1.00
Other Assets
1,360.00
TOTAL RESOURCES
.$3,897,661’.15
i
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock
.$ 100,000.00
Surplus
. 100,000.00
Undivided Profits ,
. 38,332.53 .
Deposits
. 3,644,498.62
Reserves
14,830.00
TOTAL LIABILITIES
.$3,897,661.15
fish are placed in tanks with the
enzyme solution which selectively
loosens the scales and “digests”
the viscera. The whole carcasses
are removed and washed with wa
ter and set aside for further pro
cessing. Nothing is wasted.
Formulae for the amount of
enzymes used, for time of “soak
ing” and for temperature, are care
fully worked out, since differences
in species of fish require various
times and temperatures for effec
tive scaling and gutting.
At the Chemurgic Laboratory,
Meinke and his staff have been
using common Gulf, species, such
as golden croaker, sand trout and
the like. But, he says, the method
will apply to most species of
snaall, hitherto wasted fish, and,
"With certain refinements, should
have applications in processing
better fish, such as sardines, mack
erel, tuna and salmon.
Marketable products produced in
the Chemurgic Laboratory, from
the small fish, include fish flburs
meals, fish solubles and bone and
scale meals with a number of uses.
Fish flour can be used for en
richment of such human foods as
cereals. Meinke points out that
for enrichment a high protein con
tent is desired, and that the fish
flours run as high as from 80 to
90 per cent protein.
Fish solybles, resulting from
digestion of the viscera and soft
skin in the fish, have a ready mar
ket with producers of formulated
poultry feeds, and are valued at
from $80 to $100 a ton. The use
of fish solubles in poultry rations
during the past ten years has been
one of the biggest advancements in
poultry feeding in the nation.
Bone and scale left over from
processing have potential uses as
mineral supplments, and as pro
tein supplements in poultry feeds.
Carcass flesh from the rough
fish is available for the cat-artd-
dog food industry, and for other
uses.
The • idea of converting ^billions
of tons of small fish that arp now
,a nuisance to commercial fishers
and shrimpers, into products of
marketable y^lue, has si arked
more than t\^6 years, resea] ch at
the laboratory.' j^0ege sjation.
“On an averag^ Meinke points
out, “shrimpers get , aboujt six
pounds .of rough to ijevery
pound of shrimp taken in trawls.
This varies, of. course., from Isssen-
tially pure shrimp hauls, to’those
consisting almost entirely , of 'trash
fish. Depending on what comes up
in the net, the shrimper may work
the area, or. have, to make long
runs to new grounds.
“To convert the rough fish to
sable products will of course, be
converting a big liability to an as
set. The value of the rough fish
catches will depend on a number
of factors—including such features
as cost of transportation, develop
ing practical icing methods, pro
cessing without the expense of big
machinery operations.”
Under laboratory conditions.
Meinke and his staff have con
verted “waste” fish into products
with a value of $34.76 a ton—at a
cost of $27.86 per ton.
Buddhist priests have their last
meal of the day at noon and do not
touch food again until the follow
ing morning.
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' News. of the World
By The Associated Press
India Keeping Out of Anti-Red Revolt
NEW DELHI, India—Prime Minister Nehru told Parlia
ment Monday India is keeping hands off the anti-Communist
revolt in Tibet, and that fighting between the Red Chinese
and street mobs apparently has died down in Lhasa, the capi
tal.
His statement apparently demolished one of the last
hopes of the Tibetan rebels.
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Coal Mine Explosion Kills Nine
ROBBINS, Tenn.—A gas explosion ripped the interior
of a small coal mine Monday killing nine men. There were
no survivors.
The blast occurred at 8:30 a. m., about a half hour after
the men entered the mine.
It took rescue workers five hours to recover all the
bodies, which were badly burned and .torn. They were found
about 4,000 feet from the mine entrance.
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Ike Bids to Raise Unemployment Insurance
WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower renewed a bid
Monday he made five years ago that the states raise the
amount and duration of unemployment insurance benefits.
Eisenhower made the plea at a meeting with an eight-
governor executive committee of the Governors Conference.
He reiterated his opposition to improving the jobless aid
program by federal legislation as advocated by some Demo
crats in Congress.
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Senate Passes Bill Helping Unemployment
WASHINGTON—The Senate passed a 389i/2-million-dok
lar bill designated to help areas of chronic unemployment
with federal grants and loans Monday. It far exceeded Presi
dent Eisenhower’s request.
The roll-call vote was 49-46.
The bill now goes to the House which has conducted
hearings on similar legislation.
Eisenhower last year vetoed a similar bill, carrying $100
million less than the measure before the Senate Monday.
Republicans freely predicted he also would veto this new ver
sion.
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A&M Prof Takes
Louisiana Tour
Fred E. Smith, professor of ge
ology at A&M, recently returned
from conducting a weekend field
trip in east Texas and western
Louisiana. The purpose of the
trip was to collect and study the
surface outcrop of the Moody’s
Branch Marl between the Red Riv
er in Louisiana and the Brazozs
River in Texas.
Carroll D. Pitzer, a graduate
student in the Department of Ge
ology and Geophysics from Re
fugio is studying the microfauna
of this member of the Jackson for
mation for his Master’s thesis. They
were accompanied by Suparb Poo-
brasert, Bankok, Thailand; J. Mayo
Waggonner, College Station and
Kenneth E. Davis of Waco, stu
dents.
Morgan To Attend
Composition Meet
Dr. Stewart S. Morgan, head of
the Department of English, will
attend the annual meeting of the
Conference on College Composition
and Communication in San Fran
cisco, Calif., April 2-4.
The Conference on College Com
position and Cqmmunication is a
branch of the National Council of
Teachers of English. Morgan is
state chairman of achievement
awards for the NOTE.
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