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Fish meal, the Glossary

Fish meal, sometimes spelt fishmeal, is a commercial product made from whole wild-caught fish, bycatch, and fish by-products to feed farm animals, e.g., pigs, poultry, and farmed fish.^[1]

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Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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Animal feed

Animal feed is food given to domestic animals, especially livestock, in the course of animal husbandry.

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Antioxidant

Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation (usually occurring as autoxidation), a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals.

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Atlantic herring

Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) is a herring in the family Clupeidae.

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Blood meal

Blood meal is a dry, inert powder made from blood, used as a high-nitrogen organic fertilizer and a high protein animal feed. Fish meal and blood meal are organic fertilizers.

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Blue whiting

The blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) one of the two species in the genus Micromesistius in the family Gadidae, which also contains cod, haddock, whiting, and pollock.

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Bone meal

Bone meal (or bonemeal) is a mixture of finely and coarsely ground animal bones and slaughter-house waste products. Fish meal and bone meal are organic fertilizers.

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By-product

A by-product or byproduct is a secondary product derived from a production process, manufacturing process or chemical reaction; it is not the primary product or service being produced.

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Bycatch

Bycatch (or by-catch), in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while fishing for specific species or sizes of wildlife.

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Capelin

The capelin or caplin (Mallotus villosus) is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic oceans.

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Chilean jack mackerel

The Chilean jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi), sometimes called the Inca scad or Peruvian jack mackerel, is a species of jack mackerel in the genus Trachurus of the family Carangidae.

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Complete protein

A complete protein or whole protein is a food source of protein that contains an adequate proportion of each of the nine essential amino acids necessary in the human diet.

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Cottonseed

Cottonseed is the seed of the cotton plant.

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Dried fish

Fresh fish rapidly deteriorates unless some way can be found to preserve it.

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Factory ship

A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fish farming

Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds.

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Fish oil

Fish oil is oil derived from the tissues of oily fish. Fish meal and fish oil are fish products.

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Fish protein powder

Fish protein powder (FPP) describes a food grade powder product designated primarily for human consumption applications. Fish meal and Fish protein powder are fish products.

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Forage fish

Forage fish, also called prey fish or bait fish, are small pelagic fish that feed on plankton and other tiny organisms.

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Herring

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.

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Legume

Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.

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Mackerel

Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae.

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Meat and bone meal

Meat and bone meal (MBM) is a product of the rendering industry. Fish meal and meat and bone meal are meat industry.

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Menhaden

Menhaden, also known as mossbunker and bunker and "the most important fish in the sea", are forage fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the order Clupeiformes.

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Oily fish

Oily fish are fish species with oil (fats) in soft tissues and in the coelomic cavity around the gut.

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Peruvian anchoveta

The Peruvian anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) is a species of fish of the anchovy family, Engraulidae, from the Southeast Pacific Ocean.

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Pollock

Pollock or pollack (pronounced) is the common name used for either of the two species of North Atlantic marine fish in the genus Pollachius.

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In biochemistry and nutrition, a polyunsaturated fat is a fat that contains a polyunsaturated fatty acid (abbreviated PUFA), which is a subclass of fatty acid characterized by a backbone with two or more carbon–carbon double bonds.

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Poultry feed

Poultry feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic birds.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Redox

Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.

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Saltwater fish

Saltwater fish, also called marine fish or sea fish, are fish that live in seawater.

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Sand eel

Sand eel or sandeel is the common name used for a considerable number of species of fish.

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Sardine

Sardine and pilchard are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring family Clupeidae.

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Scomberesocidae

Sauries are fish of the family Scomberesocidae.

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Screw conveyor

A screw conveyor or auger conveyor is a mechanism that uses a rotating helical screw blade, called a "flighting", usually within a tube, to move liquid or granular materials.

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Seafood

Seafood is the culinary name for food that comes from any form of sea life, prominently including fish and shellfish.

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Soybean meal

Soybean meal is used in food and animal feeds, principally as a protein supplement, but also as a source of metabolizable energy.

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Spontaneous combustion

Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal reactions), followed by thermal runaway (self heating which rapidly accelerates to high temperatures) and finally, autoignition.

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Sprat

Sprat is the common name applied to a group of forage fish belonging to the genus Sprattus in the family Clupeidae.

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Sustainable fishery

A conventional idea of a sustainable fishery is that it is one that is harvested at a sustainable rate, where the fish population does not decline over time because of fishing practices.

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The Travels of Marco Polo

Book of the Marvels of the World (Italian:, lit. 'The Million', possibly derived from Polo's nickname "Emilione"), in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo.

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Trisopterus luscus

Trisopterus luscus (bib, pout whiting, pout or most commonly pouting) is a seafish belonging to the cod family (Gadidae).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_meal

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Fish farming

Fish products

Organic fertilizers

Pet foods

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