Producer of omega-3 fish oil and specialty fishmeal products, Omega Protein Corporation, has announced that it will build and operate a shrimp hull processing facility at its Moss Point, Mississippi facility in the United States.
The company plans to install and operate shrimp hull processing equipment and then process shrimp hulls at its facility into high quality marine ingredients. The shrimp hull raw material will be provided for no cost by Mississippi shrimp processors who will be able to process those hulls at Omega Protein's facility without fees, rather than pay disposal fees to third-party landfills.
Construction on the project is expected to commence later in 2010 and the project is anticipated to be completed in 2011. Omega Protein makes its products from menhaden, an Omega-3 rich fish that is not utilized as seafood, but which is abundantly available along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coasts.
