Bangladesh produces and exports a wide range of fishes, shrimps, seafood and other frozen food products. These may be classified into ten broad categories as noted below:
• Frozen Shrimp & Prawn
• Frozen Fishes
• Fresh & Chilled Fish
• Frozen Fillets & Steaks of Fishes, Sharks, Skates & Rays & Crushed Shells
• Shark fins & Fish Maws.
• Salted and dehydrated Fishes
• Dry Fish
• Live Crabs & Tortoises
• Fish meals
• Value added Fish & Shrimp Products.
Product Reflection
A. Frozen Shrimp & Prawn
¨ Name of the Products : Fresh water headless, shell-on tail-on (FWSO), Sea water headless shell-on tail-on (SWSO) Peeled and Deveined (P&D), Peeled and un-deveined (PUD) and Broken Product (BP) of Prawns and Shrimps in Block Frozen and Semi Cooks etc.
¨ Size : U/5, 6/8, 8/12, 13/15, 16/20, 21/25, 26/30, 31/35, 36/40, 41/50, 51/60, 61/70, 71/90, 91/110, 111/130, 131/200, 201/300, 301/500 pieces per pound.
¨ Packing : 2kg. Blocks are wrapped with polythene sheet and packed in both-side wax coated laminated one flap duplex board non toxic painted inner carton (EEC Standard) and then 2 kgs X 6 = 12 kgs net put into corrugated wax coated Master Carton.
B. Frozen Sea Water and Fresh Water Fish
¨ Sea water fish : Promfrets, Jewfish, Indian Salmon, Shad, Catfish, Ribbonfish, Mullet, Tuna, Mackerel, Cock-up, Red Snapper etc. are processed in whole, headless, belly clean (IQF) state or sliced/fillets/steak in Block frozen state.
¨ Fresh water fish : Carps, Common Carps, Silver Carps, Grass Carps, Catfish, River Shark, Climbing Perch, Snake-Heads, Barbs.
¨ Shad, Eel, Mullets etc. The large fishes are processed in whole headless, belly clean (IQF) state or sliced/fillets/steaks and small fishes are processed in whole block frozen state.
¨ Packing : Each IQF Sea/Fresh water fish is wrapped with polythene sheet or put in polybag and 20 kgs net of such fishes are put into a large polybag and then into a Master Carton wrapped with Hessian cloth.
¨ Block frozen fishes are wrapped with polythene sheet and then put into a Master Carton wrapped with Hessian cloth. The small fishes are packed in 2 kgs/1kg/0.5 kg blocks or as desired by the Buyers.
