Fish meal

Fish meal

Fish meal, or fishmeal, is a commercial product made from both whole fish and the bones and offal from processed fish. It is a brown powder or cake obtained by rendering pressing the whole fish or fish trimmings to remove the fish oil.

The major use of fish meal is as a high-protein supplement in aquaculture feed. The main producing countries in 2004 were Peru, Chile, China, Thailand, USA, Japan and Denmark. World-wide production is about 6.3 million tons annually. [ [http://www.gafta.com/fin/finfacts1.html Fishmeal Information Network] ]

Fish meal differs from fish hydrolysate in that the hydrolysate form has the oil and the protein included in the product.

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