fish meal
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fish meal
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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The hundreds of millions of tons harvested annually are used almost exclusively to create that fish meal, a product that is in turn used to make feed for industrial, high-end fish farming.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2024
Certain types of fish such as anchovies and herring are packed with nutrients but often used for fish meal and fish oil because these nutrients also promote fish growth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
Prof Gröndahl also hopes that in the future algae will become a key ingredient in animal feed, to replace environmentally-damaging fish meal, which is common in pigs and poultry diets.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2023
Advances in fish meal production has improved the feed ratio but as salmon farming has grown dramatically around the world, so has demand for wild forage fish.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2022
People stopped trying to raise hogs because it was too difficult to get slop rich enough to feed them, and no one had the money to buy mash or fish meal.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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