Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company brine in hermetically sealed can and sterilized to achieve commercial sterility by application of heat. The fish is treated by Blast or brine freezing method. The frozen species are Katsuwonus Pelamis “Skipjack” and Thunnus Albacares “Yellowfin” tuna. Fishmeal, a fertilizer as well as an essential ingredient in poultry, and fish feed, this is by product of the cannery. To reduce amount of waste exhausted from fish products, fish meal is produced from the waste fish from the cannery. Katsuobushi is the Japanese name for a specific type of smoked dried tuna. Although Katsuobushi is a form of dried skipjack, the
Skipjack-class submarine the increased size of the "Thresher" and "Sturgeon" classes, which retained "Skipjack"s S5W power plant, plus the introduction of the "skewback" screw, which was quiet but mechanically inefficient. The "Skipjack"s saw service during the Vietnam War and most of the Cold War. The "Skipjack"-class submarines were withdrawn from service in the late 1980s and early 1990s except for , which sank on 5 June 1968 southwest of the Azores while returning from a Mediterranean deployment, with all 99 crewmembers lost. The gap in the hull-number sequence was taken by the two one-of-a-kind submarines and . Skipjack-class submarine The "Skipjack" class