fish meal

American  

Or fishmeal

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of fish meal

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

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fish meal

But fish meal is selling for record-high prices after officials in Peru, the biggest producer of the anchovies used to make it, suspended this year’s catch early.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

“That fish meal or aqua feed, as a whole, represents the majority cost for a lot of aquaculture farmers,” Gephart said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

Horace continued, “You know that place of mine across the track up there where the fish meal is.”

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck