Definition of surimi
: a fish product made from inexpensive whitefish and often processed to resemble more expensive seafood (such as crabmeat)
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For Alaska pollock roe and surimi, for example, 4.2 percent tariffs going into Japan would have immediately gone to zero, said Ron Rogness of American Seafoods Company.
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Russian purchases of Alaska seafood totaled at least 20 million pounds of mostly pink salmon roe and pollock surimi annually, valued at $60 million, according to the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.
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Most sushi restaurants serve imitation crab meat (or surimi) which is other, more cost-effective fish ground up and mashed together with binders that often contain gluten.
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The mega maki required approximately 500 cups of vinegared rice, 800 sheets of nori paper, 125 avocados and 200 pounds of surimi, a fish paste.
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The fish is used in fish sandwiches, frozen fish sticks, omega-3 oils and surimi.
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The Trident plant converts whiting into surimi, an odorless, tasteless fish protein that is the main ingredient in imitation crab and lobster.
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Such a product would be far more valuable than surimi, Carroll said, and conceivably could significantly increase the price paid to fishermen.
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The surimi plant converts Pacific whiting into surimi, the main ingredient in artificial crab and other seafood alternatives.
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Origin and Etymology of surimi
Japanese, chopped meat or fish
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