There isn't much waste when those processors make surimi. Those fish are left to stiffen up in that bin the net is emptied into. Then they'll get processed and most every scrap is taken. The blood in the meat is "whitened" out. Yum!!

Those fish are definitely not from around here but it's the same process in AK. It's amazing to see hauls of fish like that and know it takes place in every ocean. Some are sustainable( for now) and some aren't but there's by-catch in every fishery and that is wasted. The fish are dead and thrown over for the crabs- makes no sense.