Sea foods have traditionally been a popular part of
the diet in many parts of the world and in some countries constitute the main
supply of animal protein. Sea foods are any form of sea life regarded as foods
by humans. Seafood's prominently include fish as shell fish, the shell fish
covers the bivalve molluscan shell fish (oysters, cockles, clams and mussels),
the gastropods (periwinkles, sea snails) and the crustacean shell fish (crab,
prawn, lobsters and shrimps). Sea foods differed from other types of foods in a
number of ways (Brier, 1992). Edible sea plants, such as some weeds and
microalgae re widely eaten as seafood around the world. Nutritionists have
revealed that sea foods is a source of top-quality protein for the body.
Through the educational and promotional efforts of the seafood’s industry,
government, academics and the general public has a sharper sense of the
importance of seafood in a healthy diet. It provides the world’s prime source
of high quality protein. Fourteen to sixteen percent (14 – 16%) of animal
protein consumed over the worlds; over one billion people rely on sea foods as
their primary source of animal protein (Rice, 2004). Seafood is often
distinguished from meat, although it is still an animal and is exceeded in
abstract vegetarian diet. Sea food's is an important source of protein in many
diets around the world, especially in coastal area. Most of the sea food's
harvest is consumed by humans, but a significant proportion is used as fish
food to farm other fish or rear farm animals. Some sea foods (kelp) are used as
food for other plants (Narain and Nunes, 2007). Many people are turning to fish
as a healthy alternative to real mean. The low fat content of much seafood and
the effect on coronary heart disease of the n-3poly unsaturated fatty acids
food in fatty pelagic fish species are extremely important aspect for health
conscious people particularly is different countries where cardio vascular
disease mortality is high. However, consumption of fish and shell fish may also
cause disease due to infection or intoxication. Some of these disease have been
socially associated with pathogens which are resistant to antibiotics (Brier,
1992). Sea foods are indirectly used to produce further food for human
consumption. Products such as fish oil and spirulina tablets are also extracted
from sea foods. Some sea foods is feed
to aquarium fish, or used to feed domestic pets, such as cats and small
proportions is used in medicine, or used industrially for non-food purposes
(leather), (Narain and Nunes, (2007).
Sea foods, because they are nutrient rich are
excellent environment for the growth of micro organism. The indigenous bacteria
that cause spoilage in seafood include Clostridium
botulimum, Vibrio cholera, V. parahaemohyticus and Acromonas specie.
Non-indigenous bacteria include Salmonella
species, Shigella, Escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus. The bacteria
flora of marine fish, sediments and seawater has been studied all over the
world. The bacteria disease of sea foods are caused mainly due to contaminated
water (Najiah et al., 2008). The majority of reported sea foods associated
disease outbreaks are caused by toxins, biotoxins and histamine (Chen et al., 2010).
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