Pafco Waste Management Program

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Pafco Waste Management Program

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PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITEDCompany Brief

• OVERVIEW BACKGROUND
• CONCEIVED as a socio-economic activity to reverse
  the effects of the trade recession experienced in
  Levuka in the mid to late 50s.
• JOINT INITIATIVE between Fiji Govt and Ministry
  of Trade and Industry in Japan at the time.
• BECAME the 3rd Japanese fishing base in the
  Western Pacific specifically set up as a
  transshipment operation.
• Fiji GOVERNMENT took control in 1987.
• OBJECTIVE of PAFCO Uplift economic growth and
  development of Ovalau Island.

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PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITEDCompany Brief

• BRIEF HISTORY
• REGISTERED in 19th February 1963
• 1964 Established as a Tuna Transshipment Port.
• 1970 Pilot Cannery processing 10MT Tuna per
  day.
• 1974 New Cannery built 15000MT per year.
• 1976 Started Operation.
• 1978 Can manufacturing plant built
• 1980-1986 production increased to 35MT per day
• 1980 John West became main buyer in UK
• 1984 Sainsbury started buying PAFCO products.
• 1999 started processing cooked Loins for Bumble
  Bee Foods

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PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITEDCompany Brief

• COMPANY PRODUCTS
• LOCAL MARKET Sun Bell Canned Tuna Products and
  Sun Bell Mackerel.
• OFF-SHORE Canned Tuna Products to selected
  buyers in the US and Europe (Clover Leaf Brand)
• Frozen Cooked Loins
• By-Product Fish Meal and Fish Oil

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PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITEDCompany Brief

• CURRENT WORKFORCE
• TOTAL OF MORE THAN 800 EMPLOYEES
• Management 12
• Salaried Staff 34
• Permanent Employees 600(Hourly Paid)
• Pool Workers (Casuals) 200 (Hourly Paid)
• More than 70 of the Workforce are Women.
• 2 x Unions for Hourly Paid employees and a Staff
  Association

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PAFCO Waste Management Flow Chart
Dumper
Spiral Conveyor
Hopper
Accumulative Conveyor
Receive fish scrap from Butcher and packing Room
Receive fish scraps from Butcher and Packing Room
Fish Oil Tank 1
Transfer pipe
Accumulative Tank (Water Oil)
Hydraulic Jack to lift the bin
Tank 2
Crusher
Tank 3
Press
Hammer Mill
Cooker
Bagging
Storage
Drier
Storage
Storage
Storage
Shipping
Strainer
Shipping
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Fish Scrap Origin

• Fish scraps or waste generated during the
  production process is converted to by- product
  which is the fishmeal
• The two major sources of scrap(fish waste) for
  fishmeal comes from
• 1. Butchering- guts and roe removed from fish
  prior to precooking.
• 2. Skins, bones, red-meat and head-meat
  that comes from skinning and cleaning the
  precooked fish.

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Fish Scrap from Butcher

• Viscera from all butchered fish is passed onto
  the gut conveyor which transfers the fish to the
  waste bin by the spiral conveyor.

• Viscera extracted from the fish

• Viscera travels in an under- lying conveyor to
  the waste bin

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Fish Scraps from Butcher

• Viscera travels via conveyor into the scrap bin.
  When the bin is full, the forklift takes it down
  to the fishmeal area

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Fish Scrap from Packing Room

• Fish waste are generated in the packing room
  through the fish skinning and cleaning process
• The waste generated are collected on portable
  trays and transferred to the hopper by a conveyor
  to a waste bin

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Fish Scrap from Packing Room

• Fish waste collected in trays ready to be
  transferred to the hopper

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Fish Scrap from Packing Room

• Scrap hopper for transferring waste into bins

• Spiral conveyor inside the hopper

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Fish Scrap from Packing Room

• Fish waste being loaded onto bins

• waste bin being transferred to fishmeal area

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Processing of Fish waste to produce Fishmeal

• Fish waste received at fishmeal area are
  processed into fishmeal. Note, these are done
  under strict sanitary conditions to ensure a safe
  product for both local and export markets.

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• The waste bin delivered to fishmeal dumper

• waste bin being dumped in the hopper

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• Fish waste inside the hopper

• Fish waste being transferred to the spiral
  conveyor

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• Spiral conveyor transports the waste to the
  crusher to churn into fine pieces

• The crusher breaks down large pieces of bones and
  fish scraps

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• From the crusher, the scrap travels to the cooker
  and then to the press

• The press squeezes the cooked scrap meat to
  extract fat and water

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• The water and fat extracted by the press is
  collected in the accumulative tank

• Other processes are carried out to extract the
  oil from the fat- decantation and filtration

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Fish Oil

• Final product a sample being collected for lab
  analysis

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• The dried waste then passes through the strainer
  which takes out any big pieces of bones etc still
  left in the dried meal.

• The fish waste after being pressed is
  transferred to the steam drier

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• The strained meal passes to the hammer mill to
  further refining.

• The refined fishmeal is then bagged.

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• The bagged fishmeal is then racked in storage area

• Fishmeal in containers ready to be shipped

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Discharge Pipes on the sea-bed
Floaters

• All discharge waste from fishmeal is released
  200m beyond the reef through discharge pipes.

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