“…Earlier workers generally have attributed much of the characteristics aroma of fresh fish to nonenzymic autoxidation products of highly unsaturated fatty acids in fish (Yu et al, 1961;Stansby, 1962;Mejboom and Stroink, 1972;Badings, 1973;McGill et al, 1974McGill et al, , 1977Crawford et al, 1975; Ke et al, 1975; Crawford and Kretsch, 1976; Ikeda, 1979). Fish-like aromas that resemble those of oxidized fish oil also develop in oxidizing butter, soybean, and linseed oils (Forss et al, 1960;Badings, 1970;Seals and Hammond, 1970), and these occurrences have usually been interpreted as support for the view that nonenzymic processes are responsible for the aroma of fishes.…”