General Information

Industrial blocks are the traditional way to pack raw material for the seafood industry reprocessing fillets into breaded fish or different products containing seafood.
The Industrial blocks are rectangular or other uniformly-shaped masses of cohering fish fillets or a mixture of fillets traditionally using the same exact dimensions and the same exact weight.
Nape is the thinnest part of a fish, near the front, around the belly. It represents the counterpart of the loin. Nape Blocks will be essentially composed of this thin part put together in a plate, frozen into block

Species Available

Belly blocks are usually issued from blocks of Pollock, Cod, Salmon, Sole, Haddock and Tilapia. Any fish processed into fillets can have pieces turned to blocks.

Average Size/Weight

Length: 480mm Width: 260mm Thickness: 65mm
Weight 16.5lbs

Form/Packing

Nape flesh is naturally bony depending on the specie. Processing of Belly blocks is usually longer in order to debone the flesh properly.
Each block is 16.5lbs
Master carton are usually 4 x 16.5lbs
In Europe: the blocks are usually 7.5kg each and packed usually into 3 x 7.5kg master carton.

Freezing Form

Block frozen in a plate.
Landfrozen, Blast frozen