Authors acknowledge the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, Brazil) for financing the project 2016/10888-7. Thais C. Merlo received the Masters Scholarship from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001. Authors thank Sealed Air for donating the modified atmosphere packaging for the project and Marcomar importer and distributor of fish for the donation of the raw material. Erick Saldaña received the Ph.D Scholarship from the Peruvian “Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica - CONCYTEC” (CIENCIACTIVA programme, contract agreement No. 104-2016-FONDECYT).

We would like to thank Jorge Cabrera for his help with designing the packaging. E. Saldaña received the support of the “Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica – CONCYTEC” from Peru (CIENCIACTIVA programme, PhD scholarship contract agreement No. 104-2016-FONDECYT). Thais C. Merlo thanks “Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior” (CAPES) for the scholarship. We would like to thank the valuable contributions of the two anonymous reviewers as they significantly improved the preliminary version of the present study.