ABSTRACT
The seafood industry consists primarily of many small processing plants, with a number of larger plants located near industry and population centers. Numerous types of seafood are processed, such as mollusks (oysters, clams, scallops), crustaceans (crabs and lobsters), saltwater fishes, and freshwater fishes. As in most processing industries, seafood-processing operations produce wastewater containing substantial contaminants in soluble, colloidal, and particulate forms. The degree of the contamination depends on the particular operation; it may be small (e.g., washing operations), mild (e.g., fish filleting), or heavy (e.g., blood water drained from fish storage tanks).
