Health & Welfare
The preventive use of common salt (sodium chloride) by commercial producers of freshwater fishes has many benefits, including helping with the routine prevention of losses due to diseases, stress and mishandling during transport, harvesting, grading, counting, weighing and induced spawning.
Health & Welfare
Flavor is an important seafood quality attribute that can be affected by preharvest conditions. Off-flavors are a result of natural enzymatic, oxidative and bacterial spoilage processes.