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Fish meal

 
 
(′fish ′mēl)

(food engineering) A protein-rich, dried food product produced from the inedible portions of fishes by dry or wet rendering.


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Surplus fish, waste from filleting (fish-house waste), and fish unsuitable for human consumption are dried and powdered. The resultant meal is a valuable source of protein for animal feed, or, after deodorization, as human food since it contains about 70% protein. That made from white fish is termed white fish meal, distinct from the oily type which is sometimes of very poor quality and is generally used as fertilizer.

 
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock


 
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Fish meal, or fishmeal, is a commercial product made from both whole fish and the bones and offal from processed fish. It is a brown powder or cake obtained by rendering pressing the whole fish or fish trimmings to remove the fish oil.

The major use of fish meal is as a high-protein supplement in aquaculture feed. The main producing countries in 2004 were Peru, Chile, China, Thailand, USA, Japan ,India and Denmark. World-wide production is about 6.3 million tons annually.[1]

Fish meal differs from fish hydrolysate in that the hydrolysate form has the oil and the protein included in the product.


References

  1. ^ Fishmeal Information Network



 
 

 

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