Credit: Kevin Fitzsimmons (USA)

Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)

The photos show the tunnel freezing of tilapia fillets or as a whole that is carried out in a processing establishment in China.

Tilapia is an emerging species in China’s processing industry whereas tilapia fillet is the major output from tilapia processing. The export of processed tilapia has been supported by the Simple basic fish handling and processing technologies are being progressively replaced by the latest modern processing technologies.

According to the U.S. Commerce Dept., about 80 percent of the frozen tilapia in the U.S. is imported from China.