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Camharina flour packaging

Practices that use it

Asomefama and Camharina: shrimp waste flour in TumacoAsociación de Mujeres Emprendedoras para un Futuro Amigable con el Medio Ambiente (Asomefama), made up mostly of women heads of household and victims of the armed conflict in Tumaco, founded by sisters Jacqueline and Yesy Sevillano. They recover shrimp exoskeletons and heads that used to be dumped into the Pacific and transform them into 'Camharina', a protein-rich flour (washing, seven-hour dehydration at 80°C, milling and packaging; ~800 kg of shells per month). They thus close a loop on a local fishing waste stream by turning it into a marketable food, with scientific and business support from the CircularEconomy4Colombia program.● Active· scale local