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PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED
Company Brief
OVERVIEW – BACKGROUND
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CONCEIVED as a socio-economic activity to reverse the effects of the trade recession experienced in Levuka in the mid to late 50s.
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JOINT INITIATIVE between Fiji Govt and Ministry of Trade and Industry in
Japan at the time.
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BECAME the 3 rd Japanese fishing base in the Western Pacific specifically set up as a transshipment operation.
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Fiji GOVERNMENT took control in 1987.
 OBJECTIVE of PAFCO – Uplift economic growth and development of Ovalau Island.

PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED
Company Brief
BRIEF HISTORY
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REGISTERED in 19 th 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
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LOCAL MARKET: Sun Bell Canned Tuna Products and
Sun Bell Mackerel.
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OFF-SHORE: Canned Tuna Products to selected buyers in the US and Europe (Clover Leaf Brand)
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Frozen Cooked Loins
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By-Product: Fish Meal and Fish Oil

PACIFIC FISHING COMPANY LIMITED
Company Brief
CURRENT WORKFORCE
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TOTAL OF MORE THAN 800 EMPLOYEES:
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Management:
Salaried Staff:
12
34
Permanent Employees: 600(Hourly Paid)
Pool Workers (Casuals): 200 (Hourly Paid)
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More than 70% of the Workforce are Women.
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2 x Unions for Hourly Paid employees and a Staff Association

Fish Oil
Tank 1
Tank 2
Spiral Conveyor
Crusher
Dumper
Hopper scrap from scraps from
Room Packing
Room
Hydraulic Jack to lift the bin
Tank 3
Press
Hammer Mill
Storage
Shipping
Drier
Strainer
Shipping

 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.

 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 bin

Viscera travels via conveyor into the scrap bin. When the bin is full, the forklift takes it down to the fishmeal area

 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

 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

Floaters
All discharge waste from fishmeal is released 200m beyond the reef through discharge pipes.