TRANSPORTATION OF LIVE FISH (Containers, Time and Transport Technique)

Science and Technology

Consumer demand for fishery commodities in live form is felt to be getting bigger and growing, especially for types of fish that have high economic value such as lobster, shrimp, reef fish and several types of freshwater fish. Live fish transportation technology is increasingly popular and indeed it is time to receive special attention and need to be developed immediately. The success of live fish transportation is always influenced by the physiological characteristics of the fish, the size of the fish, the fitness/quality of the fish prior to transportation, the quality of the water during transportation (medium temperature DO, pH, CO2 and ammonia), the density of fish in the container, mobility techniques using low temperatures or other materials. Chemical and natural metabolites and transportation time. Efforts to inhibit the rate of metabolism are carried out by keeping the water temperature low during transportation, namely by carrying out the transportation in the morning/evening or by adding ice to the transportation container. Broadly speaking, the transportation of live fish is carried out in two ways, namely the dry system and the wet system. Transportation of fish can be done with an open system and a closed system. In an open system, the water media in the container can be in direct contact with the open air outside the container, while in a closed system, contact with the outside air does not occur because the media is in a tightly closed container.

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