Abstract: The apparatus for mechanical shelling of meat from the abdominal section of n antarctic krill employing a spinning rotor cooperating with a stationary system of cutting and chopping elements. A casing is mounted on a bed with an output passage and a lid. A rotor is disposed inside the casing and is mounted on a shaft having a working disc mounted on the rotor. A cylindrical chute mounted above the working disc has a toothed ring provided in the bottom section of this chute. The ring consists of cut-outs forming teeth, the tips of which point toward the working face of the disc. A toothed ring includes a replaceable collar on to which bars and angle bars are mounted. A multi-jet water spray is installed in the top section in the chute and the working face of disc is provided with protrusions which are identical in height, knife-edges of the protrusions are preferably directed in perpendicular to the direction of disc motion.

Abstract: In accordance with the method invented for obtaining meat from the abdomi section of a body of Antarctic krill, a thermal treatment is applied, this treatment being followed by subjecting the treated krill to acceleration by using mechanical, hydraulic or pneumatic means, and to a sudden deceleration (braking), in order to cause the destruction of the krill body and to extract the meat out of the abdominal section of this body, the edible meat of krill being then separated from other non-edible fragments of the body by using a hydro-dynamic or gas-hydro-dynamic method, namely by flotation.