Pafco Waste Management Program
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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.
PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED
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BRIEF HISTORY
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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
1980-1986 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
PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED
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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
PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED
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CURRENT WORKFORCE
 TOTAL OF MORE THAN 800 EMPLOYEES:
 Management:
 Salaried Staff:
 Permanent Employees:
 Pool Workers (Casuals):
12
34
600(Hourly Paid)
200 (Hourly Paid)
 More than 70% of the Workforce are Women.
 2 x Unions for Hourly Paid employees and a Staff Association
PAFCO Waste Management Flow Chart
Spiral Conveyor
Dumper
Hopper
Tank 3
Accumulative Tank
(Water + Oil)
Cooker
Tank 2
Transfer pipe
Fish Oil
Tank 1
Receive fish
Receive fish
scrap from
scraps
Butcher
and from
Butcher and
packing
RoomPacking
Room
Crusher
Press
Hydraulic Jack
to lift the bin
Hammer Mill
Storage
Drier
Shipping
Storage
Storage
Storage
Strainer
Shipping
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.
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 underlying conveyor to the waste
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
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
Fish Scrap from Packing Room:
Fish waste collected in trays ready to be transferred to the
hopper
Fish Scrap from Packing Room:
Scrap hopper for
transferring waste into bins
Spiral conveyor inside the
hopper
Fish Scrap from Packing Room:
Fish waste being loaded
onto bins
waste bin being transferred
to fishmeal area
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.
The waste bin delivered to
fishmeal dumper
waste bin being dumped in
the hopper
Fish waste inside the hopper
Fish waste being transferred
to the spiral conveyor
Spiral conveyor transports
the waste to the crusher to
churn into fine pieces
The crusher breaks down
large pieces of bones and
fish scraps
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
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
Fish Oil
Final product – a
sample being
collected for lab
analysis
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 strained meal passes to
the hammer mill to further
refining.
The refined fishmeal is then
bagged.
The bagged fishmeal is then
racked in storage area
Fishmeal in containers ready
to be shipped
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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