fish meal

Or fishmeal

noun

1. dried fish ground for use as fertilizer, animal feed, or an ingredient in other foods.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fish meal¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Hill explained how local producers can raise better-quality, fatter fish by switching to protein-packed American soybean meal as feed, rather than using the traditional, cheaper “fish meal,” composed of ground-up smaller fish.

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The fish meal used to feed farmed salmon presents further problems, as it often originates from wild-caught fish that aren't always taken at sustainable levels.

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Annual fish runs yielded dried fish, fish oil, and fish meal—all high-calorie, long-lasting foods.

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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.

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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.

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