Fish meal

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

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.

The noun has one meaning:

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

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 cooked whole fish or fish trimmings to remove most of the fish oil and water, and then ground. What remains is the "fishmeal".

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 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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