They are valuable and easy to catch, and industrial fleets the world over are relentlessly "harvesting" them with little awareness of the damage this is doing to the oceans' ecosystems.
However, if the price of fishmeal rises, a way might be found to harvest unexploited stocks of hard-to-catch industrial species such as krill.
The New England Fishery Management Council on Thursday approved the region's first cap on the amount of river herring that can be caught by industrial trawlers.
A fisherman that is fishing for human consumption is much more likely to get more dollars per pound than a fisherman trying to catch fish for industrial reduction.
The world's catch of "industrial" fish mostly anchovies, sardines and menhaden that is used to make fishmeal has remained resolutely stable at 30m tonnes for decades.
With few eager to consume the fruits of whaling, Iceland may be trying to turn its catch into industrial feed kibbles.
At least as often, though, the ship was crushed in the shifting pack ice — "like a grand piano caught in an industrial press," Barry Lopez wrote in his 1986 book, "Arctic Dreams".
In the short term, fish caught on an industrial scale may be cheaper for Mauritanians, but it could also put artisanal fishermen out of business.
This visually-stunning "dieselpunk" fantasia watches like Sin City and The Iron Giant got caught in the industrial shredder at the stupid-factory.
The marketing of catches, both from small-scale fisheries and the by-catch from industrial fleets, presents opportunities for islanders, and in particular women, to participate in an economic activity to which they otherwise would not have access.
The company designed the phone in partnership with Huawei and after today's event, we had a chance to catch up with Jeff Hoefer, the industrial design manager in charge of the Nexus 6P design.
