Indian Food Industry Mag Vol 37 No 6, Nov-Dec 2018 49 49 49 49 49 TARs Energy Optimization in Seafood Processing Industries P. R. Amulya*, S. Murali, P. V. Alfiya, D.S Aniesrani Delfiya and Manoj P. Samuel ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin *E-mail: amulyapr45@gmail.com Fisheries in India India is endowed with long stretches of marine coastal line of around 8,130 kilometres and 1,95,210 kilometres of rivers and canals, 2.9 million hectares of minor and major reservoirs, 2.4 million hectares of ponds and lakes, and about 0.8 million hectares of flood plain wetlands contributing to the country’s freshwater reserve (FAO, 2010). Indian fisheries and aquaculture have always been a major sector contributing to both food production and employment generation. Indian seafood processing sector has emerged as one of the world’s leading supplies of processed high value seafood products especially shrimp. While considering world aquaculture export market, India is ranked 1 st , 2 nd and 4 th largest exporter to USA, Europe and Japan, respectively. Indian contribution to global fish production is about 6.3%, which values about 1.1% of national GDP and 5.16% of national agricultural GDP. Seafood export is an ever-growing sector of the nation, which accounted to about US $5.78 billion in the year 2016-17 (Anom, 2017). More than 62% of India’s total processing capacity (total of 23,000 MT) include EU approved plants, and out of these 506 utilize latest sophisticated technologies for fish processing. Proper quality control systems and HACCP followed in these plants ensure highest quality outputs from these plants. Nevertheless, reports suggest that the energy utilized in fish processing does not match the actual requirements for the