Nutrient Composition Of Trachurus Trachurus (atlantic Horse Mackerel) Smoked With Sawdust And Different Fire Woods (dialium Guineensis And Pentaclethra Macrophylla)

ABSTRACT Trachurus trachurus (Atlantic horse mackerel) was smoked with two different fire woods Di'alium guineensis and Pentaclethra macrohylla and sawdust using a traditional smoking kiln and a constructed sawdust stove sited in the fish farm of Michael Okpara University of agriculture Umudike. The frozen fish sample was weighed, eviscerated and washed properly with clean water. During smoking the temperature of the heat was taken, duration of smoking period was also noted in smoking process. The fish sample was reweighed again after the treatment (smoking). The proximate analysis of the froz…