A method to assess gaping in Sparidae species fillets.

However, fish species of major importance in the Mediterranean mariculture, namely gilthead sea bream ( I Sparus aurata i ) and red sea bream ( I Pagrus major i ), also suffer from gaping, and consequently, economic losses burden their industry. Keywords: assessors; gapping; Gilthead sea bream; image analysis; red sea bream; scale EN assessors gapping Gilthead sea bream image analysis red sea bream scale 689 693 5 01/07/22 20220201 NES 220201 A number of commercially important farmed fish species are marketed as fillets, primarily to satisfy consumer demands. These indicate that the proposed method for evaluating gaping in Sparidae species is easy to apply in practice, allowing the scoring procedure to be accessible to all commercial gilthead sea bream and/or red sea bream farms. [Extracted from the article]