The Total Boneless Removal System Technology™

Prior to the development of the TBRS (Total Boneless Removal System) technology, all salmon pinbone-pulling systems had to wait 2 days after harvest for effective machine pinbone removal. With the TBRS, boneless salmon fillets can now be the freshest salmon in the world.

TBRS As Used For Alaska Fisherman's Catch™ Salmon Fillets

Within seconds of leaving the ocean, wild salmon are eviscerated and have their cap removed. Immediately thereafter, the salmon are then placed into the TBRS machine. Two trimmers remove the belly flaps, the salmon is then inspected with only the best being selected for Alaska Fisherman's Catch™. The TBRS then, with surgical precision, removes the bones (including the elusive pinbones). The salmon fillets are then immediately vacume sealed and flash frozen at sea for "the ultimate" in fresh wild Alaskan salmon fillets.

Pinbone Removal - Why?

In salmon, nature has produced a superb food. Tasty, very healthy, and easy to cook, salmon's only problem is too many bones. Rib bones, vertical bones, and spine can all be removed with regular salmon filleting machines. The pinbones, however, are deep within the meat and difficult to find and remove. ( See illustration below )

 

With most farmed salmon, the pinbones are weakly held in the salmon's flesh. Consequently, salmon farms in less developed countries can often afford to pull the pinbones by hand. Millions of pounds of these boneless farmed salmon fillets are currently being imported into the U.S.A. each year.

The Alaska salmon industry competes with these subjacent salmon and frankly, is having a difficult time for two main reasons: Lack of a cheap labor force for hand removal of salmon pinbones, and, in wild salmon, the pinbones are strongly embedded within the salmon's flesh. This, of course, makes pinbone removal very difficult. Some pinbone removal machines for use in the USA currently exist, however, these machines require the fish to be days old before the bones will pull.

As the only bone removal system capable of removing a fresh caught salmon's bones, TBRS technology positively changes all that.