01
Food-grade offcut stream
Frozen whole for feeding fish
Cleaned heads and fins are kept separate, fresh-frozen whole, and boxed as feed for aquarium and aquaculture fish.
Cleaned heads Fins Fresh frozen
For public aquariums, aquaculture, and feed suppliers
Every part of the squid has value.
Offcut Marine supplies whole food-grade squid heads and fins for the fish you feed. Separated on a human-food line in Rhode Island, chilled immediately, and fresh-frozen whole — never milled, never rendered.
Follow the processOne squid, two food-grade streams. Both leave whole.
What we sell
Two streams off one food-grade line.
The seafood product stream and the offcut stream begin with the same food-grade raw material. What changes is where each portion goes next.
02
Seafood product stream
Cleaned for market
Our processor partner cleans and prepares the mantle, arms, and tentacles as familiar seafood products.
Cleaned tubes Squid rings Tentacles
Why it feeds better
Whole squid, at food grade, because of where it comes from.
Most marine feed reaches you already processed — milled into meal, bound into pellets, or rendered. These heads and fins are separated on a line producing squid for human consumption, then frozen fresh. Squid is landed in season and held in cold storage, so supply continues between seasons.
- Frozen once
- Caught, processed, and frozen fresh — never thawed and refrozen.
- MSC-certified fishery
- Certified sustainable at the source, by third-party audit.
- No added fishing pressure
- A co-product of squid already landed for human food — feeding your fish takes nothing extra out of the water.
- Food-grade throughout
- Single species, consistent size, never rendered.
Ask us for current pack formats, volumes, and lead times.
Separated At source, on a human-food line
Frozen Whole and fresh — never milled
Shipped Boxed, to you
Rhode Island partnership
Processing knowledge meets marine science.
Processor partner
Rhode Island Seafood Processors
Food-grade squid processing and separation of the material at its source.
Collection and cold chain
Offcut Marine
Collects, freezes, and ships the food-grade offcut stream. Partners on research into future uses.
Research partner
Roger Williams University Center for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED)
Ingredient analysis, preparation, formulation, and marine fish evaluation.
Research and development
What else these offcuts could become.
Research at the Roger Williams University Center for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED) will establish how these food-grade offcuts can be characterized, stabilized, and evaluated for use in formulated marine fish diets. This is forward-looking research: today's product ships frozen and whole.
- 01
Characterize
Nutritional composition and raw-material consistency
- 02
Stabilize
Processing, storage, and ingredient preparation
- 03
Formulate
Practical incorporation into experimental marine diets
- 04
Evaluate
Palatability, performance, fish growth, and health
Work with us
Tell us what you feed.
We welcome conversations with public aquariums, aquaculture producers, and the suppliers who source their feed — as well as researchers and potential partners.
Prefer email? Write to contact@offcutmarine.com.