1. Pafco Waste Management Program
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2. PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED Company 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.

3. PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED Company 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
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

4. PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED Company 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

5. PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED Company 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

6. PAFCO Waste Management Flow Chart
Spiral Conveyor
Dumper
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
Cooker
Hammer Mill
Bagging
Storage
Drier
Storage
Storage
Storage
Shipping
Strainer
Shipping

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Fish Scrap from Packing Room:
Fish waste collected in trays ready to be transferred to the hopper

12. Fish Scrap from Packing Room:
Scrap hopper for transferring waste into bins
Spiral conveyor inside the hopper

13. Fish Scrap from Packing Room:
Fish waste being loaded onto bins
waste bin being transferred to fishmeal area

14. 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.

15. The waste bin delivered to fishmeal dumper
waste bin being dumped in the hopper

16. Fish waste inside the hopper
Fish waste being transferred to the spiral conveyor

17. Spiral conveyor transports the waste to the crusher to churn into fine pieces
The crusher breaks down large pieces of bones and fish scraps

18. 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

19. 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

20. Fish Oil
Final product – a sample being collected for lab analysis

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

22. The strained meal passes to the hammer mill to further refining.
The refined fishmeal is then bagged.

23. The bagged fishmeal is then racked in storage area
Fishmeal in containers ready to be shipped

24. 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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