What You Should Know:

Fishmeal is not fit for human or animal consumption. It’s generally used as cheap protein to feed farm animals because it’s calorically dense and cheap to produce.

Fishmeal is made from the bones and internal organs of fish that people don’t want to eat, generally because they’re oily and laden with bones.

Fishmeal takes the form of powder or cake after these waste products are dried, trimmed, and ground. If the fish used is a fatty fish it is pressed first to extract most of the fish oil, squashing some of the nutrition out.

Samples from 11 countries on four continents found that fishmeal products now possess plastics pollution ranging from 0 to 526.7 n/kg in.

Prior to 1910, fish meal was primarily used as fertilizer.