Benefits of using fishmeal in aquaculture

• Fishmeal is a natural and well-balanced product, and its food value is equivalent to that of prey in the wild. This fact optimizes growth and reduces the total feed requirements.
• It helps to maintain the immune system in good condition and to increase the natural resistance to diseases.
• Owing to its long-chain unsaturated fatty acids DHA and EPA, fishmeal used in fish farms contributes to the fact that there is hardly any difference between fish in the wild and fish bred in fish farms.

General

The rapid growth of aquacultures is necessary because the wordlwide catch of wild fish for the food production should not and indeed cannot be expanded further.

Fishmeal and fish oil need to be available in sufficient quantities to feed the fish and crustaceans in aquacultures appropriately. Fishmeal is produced from species that are considered unpalatable. These are typically small oily fish with a lot of bones, such as capelins, anchovies, etc., as well as fish cuttings (heads, tails, and fins) obtained from food production operations.

These otherwise lost sources of albumin reach the human food chain through aquaculture thus contributing to solving the problem of the food chain.