1. Field of the invention
This invention relates to improving the efficiency of transportation of live fish utilizing vegetable humus that has been subjected to activation treatment.
Vegetable humus (or humus soil) referred to herein is botanical fermented product which was accumulated and deposited for a long period of time in water at the bottom of a sea or lake.
2. Prior Art
The inventor of the present application filed in Japan a patent application for an invention relating to adsorbing,deodorizing and sterilizing a composition obtained by oxidizing vegetable humus with air and drying the product. This application was published (as Japanese patent publication Sho 62-1362) and registered (as a patent No. 1,393,474). Various applications of this composition are now being developed. The form of the compositions are diverse, for example, they are powder, aqueous extracted solutions granules, etc., depending upon the application field. Hereinafter powder will be referred to as Hyumas Kalumi (Japanese Trade Mark the first group, No. 1,588,037), the aqueous extract will be referred to as Hyumaselurabin (Japanese Trade Mark the first group, No. 1,588,035) and granules will be referred to as Hyumas Guardran (Japanese Trade Mark the first group, No. 1,588,036).
The inventor of this application did his research work relative to the air treatment of vegetable humus with the objective of attaining compositions having more powerful sterilizing power, deodorizing and gas adsorbing properties and he filed an application, entitled a method for "activating vegetable humus," (Japanese patent application Sho 57-144615.)
The gist of this application will be summarized hereinafter. A term "activation of vegetable humus" is a collective expression pertaining deodorizing, gas adsorbing and enrichment of bacteriostatic action etc. The inventor of the present application noticed that in the activation of vegetable humus, the action of a microorganism particularly the action of aerobic microorganism plays a significant role together with the oxidation action due to oxygen in air, and found that as a condition for treatment, contact with air at a temperature and a humidity at which microorganism reaction is carried out smoothly, should be carried out as much as possible, and it is an important point of activation. A the decision to publish was made on August 10, Showa 62 (=1987) with regard to "a method for activating vegetable humus" (Japanese patent publication No. Sho 62-37003) which defines the condition for activating vegetable humus and was registered as patent No. 1,431,877 on March 24, 1988.
This is the meaning of the phrase "grinding vegetable humus and contacting sufficiently with air to effect activation" which is referred to here in after.
By the above-mentioned treatment, activated vegetable humus greatly improves its own gas adsorbing property, deodorizing power and bacteriostatic action, but at the same time unexpected effectivenesses has been discovered.
During the course of development of application fields for Hyumaselurabin, the inventor of the present application found that it has a property which improves the water raising (or suction) by cut flowers and has superior effectiveness for keeping flowers alive, and he filed an application for this preserving agent for cut-flowers (Japanese patent application, Sho 57-14776). Later, while the inventor of this application paid attention to the physiologically active effectiveness of Hyummaselurabin, he found that it has superior effectiveness as a foliar spraying agent and filed Japanese application No. Sho 62-313140. Further, by confirming that Hyumaselurabin has superior effectiveness also in taste improving, he filed an application entitled "Food processing assistant having taste-improving effect", Japanese patent application No. Sho 62-122053.
For the powdered body (Hyumas Kalumi), notable effectiveness has exhibited as a soil improving agent, in the cultivation of vegetables, fruits, etc. (Japanese patent application No. Sho 62-326900). In addition, in raising pigs and chickens, superior physiological active effectiveness of Hyumas Kalumi as a supplementary feed stuff has been found and a Japanese patent application No. Sho 63-10585, entitled "Assistant feed stuff" was filed.
Originally, activated vegetable humus deodorizing composition, and in pig farms and poultry farms etc. it has been used for deodorizing. Effectiveness as a supplementary feed stuff which brings about growth promotion, an increase in the resistance to sickness by pigs and chickens makes it clear that the physiologically active effect appears not only in the case of botany, but also in the case of animals.
I have now turned my attention to the fishing industry.