_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: rezams@gmail.com, msreza@bau.edu.bd; Asian Food Science Journal 5(1): 1-11, 2018; Article no.AFSJ.44406 Quality Assessment of Traditionally Dried Marine Fish of Bangladesh Parimal Chadra Paul 1,2 , Md. Shaheed Reza 1* , Md. Nazrul Islam 1 and Md. Kamal 1 1 Department of Fisheries Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh. 2 Upazila Fisheries Office, Shalikha, Magura-7600, Bangladesh. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. Author PCP conducted the experiment, managed the literature searches, performed the statistical analysis and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Authors MSR and MNI managed the analyses of the study and edited the manuscript. Author MK designed the study and wrote the protocol. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/AFSJ/2018/44406 Editor(s): (1) Dr. Vijaya Khader, Professor, Department of Foods and Nutrition, Post Graduate and Research Centre, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, India. Reviewers: (1) Hayford Agbekpornu, Nanjing Agricultural University, China. (2) Jamila Patterson, Suganthi Devadason Marine Research Institute, India. (3) Stella Agyemang Duah, Szent Istvan University, Hungary. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sciencedomain.org/review-history/26728 Received 03 August 2018 Accepted 12 October 2018 Published 22 October 2018 ABSTRACT A study was conducted to assess organoleptic, biochemical and microbiological quality aspects of traditionally dried marine fish products of one of the largest fish drying zones of Bangladesh viz., Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf. It was found that eight species viz., Stromateus chinensis, S. cinereus, Riksha sp., Johinus argentatus, Trichiurus haumela, Harpodon neherus, Lutianus johnii and Penaeus sp. were commonly used as raw materials to produce traditional dried fish. Organoleptic characteristics in respect of colour, odour, texture, insect infestation and presence of broken pieces in the products indicated poor to moderately acceptable condition while water reconstitution rate was found to be slower in majority of the traditional sun dried products. Results of the proximate composition such as moisture, crude protein, lipid and ash content of these products ranged from 18.56% to 24.20%, 33.56% to 58.22%, 2.74% to 15.44% and 15.87% to 32.22% respectively. Total volatile base nitrogen (TVB-N) and peroxide value (PV) were 28.46 ± 0.5 to 42.88 ± 4.9 mg N/100g and 46.80 ± 1.9 to 82.70 ± 3.8 m.eq/kg oil respectively, both of which were higher than the Original Research Article