Glossary > Feed Ingredients > FISH MEAL

Fish meals are manufactured by cooking fish, pressing to remove water and oil, and then drying. Fish meals are often made from a single species of fish, e.g., herring meal, but meals containing more than one species, such as bottom fish meal, are also sold. Generally, the single species meals are more uniform in quality. Some typical analyses follow:

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.