What does H&G stand for?

Whiting is a toothy fish turned into fake crab and other simulated seafood products and sold headed and gutted in markets.

All-Fish Handels GmbH, Kiel, Germany (Fax: +49 431-54 58 409), will be on hand at Hall 9, Stand 4133 with a host of IQF fillets and other frozen products, including salmon, squid, cuttlefish, lobster, greenshell mussels, peeled red shrimp, monk fillets, monk tails, oil fish, pike-perch, kingklip, headed and gutted hake and hake fillets.

Korea imports primarily headed and gutted sockeye, cohos, chums and pinks.

Our responsibility is to be the best supplier of headed and gutted products," advised Icicle's Sandvik.

The leading seafood company and principal frozen food manufacturer in South Africa, Irvin & Johnson Limited (fax: 021-21-7258), made a strategic change of direction from supplying traditional commodity products (sea-frozen skin-on and skinless hake fillets and blast-frozen headed and gutted hake) to producing high-value items such as hake loins, reformed loins, center cuts, tail pieces and skinless, boneless fillets.

Product reaches the market in a number of forms: headed and gutted, as fillets with skin or skinless, individually frozen or in shatterpacks.

It offers a wide range of fish and seafood products, including whole flounder, orange roughy fillets, oreo dory fillets, ling fillets, headed and gutted monkfish, headed and gutted alfonsino, whole snapper, breaded fish portions, scallops, mussels on the half shell and oysters.

Vostok itself was established on that basis; its partner is VBTRF, based in Vladivostok, which has 87 vessels operating in the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific as well as the North Pacific and the Sea of Okhotsk, and produces single-frozen fillets, headed and gutted cod and pollock, minced pollock and tuna.