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6 BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
6.1 General
Best management practices at fish processing facilities should be implemented in two
stages:
● The first stage generally include less intensive and less expensive measures
applicable to a wide variety of fish processing plants. These practices would be
common to most facilities regardless of the type of fish processed, applied
technology or site specific conditions. It includes water conservation, waste stream
separation, by-product recovery, employee education and training, and some minimal
wastewater treatment, generally in the form of screening.
● The second stage include more site specific actions that should be developed after
the completion of a detailed site audit’.
The scope of this document is to outline first stage best management practices that could
be implemented at fish processing facilities across B.C. without undertaking detailed site
audits or costly site specific actions. Additional treatment technologies are discussed in
Section 5.3.
6.2 Water Conservation
Water conservation has two major beneficial effects: it is cost effective
contaminant loadings discharged with the waste stream (as outlined in
thus protecting the receiving environment.
Water conservation may be achieved through:
. dry transport of offal;
. dry cleanup of equipment, offal and blood spills;
. dry transport of product;
and it reduces
Section 5.2.1),
‘The B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is in the process of preparing
two handbooks to provide assistance with design and execution of such an audit.
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