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fishmeal
noun
Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed.
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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.
Many argue that using fishmeal to feed fish is, in fact, more efficient than using it to feed terrestrial animals.
Mr Bjordal says the fishmeal content of fish feed has been reduced from 70% in 1972 to 35% today.
They make Peru the world's largest exporter of fishmeal.
Fisheries exports, mostly fishmeal, account for some 20% of Peru's exports: the central bank expects fishmeal exports to fall by 35-40% next year.
Cotton is suffering already.Manufacturing output will inevitably be hurt: much of it consists of fishmeal processing.
Fish farms have found crafty ways to use lower quantities of fishmeal as feed.
The reason for this mystery is that in the past fishmeal was used to feed animals such as poultry and pigs, but this has been cut back.
Vast shoals of this member of the anchovy family feed on upswelling algae; they are themselves eaten by scores of other species of fish.For decades anchovetas have been ground into fishmeal, of which Peru is the world's top producer.
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.
That was probably because Chilean fishmeal, used as feed, comes from cleaner waters.Fundación Terram, a Chilean environmental outfit, supports the industry's claim that it doesn't use hormones.
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