Winnipeg Free Press: Great Lakes industry pledge catches on

Often, freshwater fish not desirable for sale get caught in nets and die, Meng relayed.

The catches may not taste good; they might be too costly to process for human consumption. Those are the bites Canukshuk Animal Science is looking for. Those, and the skin and carcasses of fish used for fillets.

Carcasses will be purged through a bone-meat separator, Meng explained. Fish can be dehydrated through a special machine using biomass fuel — or woodchips — specially created at the University of Manitoba, he said.

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