date:Mar 05, 2013
shmeal now comes from by-products, but this has only replaced the reduction in supply from whole fish and that total supply is capped at around 4.5 million MT. A recent FAO/OECD report predicted that by 2021, 43 percent of global fishmeal production should come from by-products.
Fishmeal is made primarily from whole fish, usually small bony species such as anchovy from Peru, which at present do not have a market for human consumption. The Peruvian anchovy fishery produces five million MT a year