Tuesday, April 5, 2011

How much wild fish is there in fish farming feed?

Fishmeal and fish oil have traditionally been the main ingredients in feed for farmed salmon. Today, less is used of these ingredients. To find out how much fish oil and fishmeal goes into the production of farmed fish, Fish In Fish Out (FIFO) is calculated, which is the ratio between the amount of wild fish in the feed and the amount of farmed fish produced.

Fishmeal and fish oil have an optimal nutritional composition for farmed fish, and they were previously both affordable and readily available ingredients. Today, fishmeal and fish oil produced from wild fish are limited resources, and global growth in seafood production requires less use of wild fish as a raw material in fish feed. Examples of alternative raw materials are plant protein ingredients and vegetable oils. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.
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