Hawaii Seafood Buyers' Guide

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Using This Guide

The Hawaii Seafood Buyers' Guide is comprised of two sections:

Introduction and Species Descriptions. The introduction and each of the 16 species descriptions are separate pages of this Guide. The Introduction provides summary information and tabular data for four major groups of Hawaii's fish species: 1) Tuna; 2) Billfish; 3) Other Open Ocean Species; and, 4) Bottom-fish. The Introduction is intended as a technical reference for buyers' information, including seasonal availability, shelf life, product forms and yields, suggested quantities of purchase and methods of preparation of the major species.

The Species Descriptions provide more popularized background information about biology, availability, fishing methods, catch distribution, substitution potential, quality control, color, taste, texture, and preparation for 16 major species. The Species Descriptions include photographs of each species in whole and filleted forms, and of selected species in food preparations.

Seafood buyers could prep are their own point-of-sale promotional material by combining information from the Species Descriptions with new or existing photographs. Negatives of the photographs contained in the Buyers' Guide are available for this purpose.

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