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
USS Skipjack (SSN-585) Night" from 15 September to 9 October. On 22 October, "Skipjack" returned to Norfolk, where she remained through January 1972. "Skipjack" spent most of 1972 in tests and type training out of Groton, CT and Norfolk, VA as well as the Caribbean. The submarine returned to Norfolk in late 1972. Toward the end of spring in 1973, "Skipjack" returned to the Mediterranean Sea and conducted several exercises with the Sixth Fleet. During that time "Skipjack" was home ported at La Maddalena on the NE corner of Sardinia. Returning to Norfolk in September "Skipjack" crossed paths with Hurricane Ellen during the