“…Accordingly, a mild acid pre-treatment is normally used for type-A gelatin extraction from fish skins (Norland, 1990). In the past 10 years considerable effort has been expended on studying gelatin extraction from different fish species, e.g., cod 25 (Gudmundsson & Hafsteinsson, 1997), tilapia (Jamilah & Harvinder, 2002), megrim (Montero & Gómez-Guillén, 2000), sole and squid (Gómez-Guillén et al 2002;Giménez, Gómez-Estaca, Alemán, Gómez-Guillén & Montero, 2008), pollock (Zhou & Regenstein, 2004), Nile perch (Muyonga, Cole & Duodu, 2004b), yellowfin tuna (Cho, Gu & Kim, 2005;Rahman, Al-Saidi & Guizani, 2008), Atlantic salmon (Arnesen & Gildberg, 2007), skipjack tuna (Aewsiri, Benjakul, Visessanguan & Tanaka, 2008); shark (Cho et al, 2004), skate (Cho, Jahncke, Chin & Eun, 2006), grass carp (Kasankala, Xue, Weilong, Hong & He, 2007), bigeye snapper and brownstripe red 5 snapper (Jongjareonrak, Benjakul, Visessanguan & Tanaka, 2006b) and channel catfish (Yang, Wang, Jiang, Oh, Herring & Zhou, 2007;Zhang et al, 2007). Table 1 summarizes the gel strength and thermal stability (gelling and melting temperatures) of different gelatins extracted from the skins of several fish species and squid, indicating shortly some details of both pre-treatment and water extracting conditions.…”