Fish meal

1. FISH MEAL

2. Topics of concern
• Introduction
• How to make it?
• Production
• Inclusion level
• Nutritive profile
• Adulteration
• Price

3. Introduction
• Fish meal is produced by cooking fish ,and
pressing the cooked mass to remove most of
the oils and water.
• Fish meal is recognised as a valuable animal
protein supplement and a source of vitamins,
minerals and unknown growth factors.
• Fish meals are added to the diet as high
quality supplements to obtain efficient diets.

5. Introduction
• It is rich in the essential amino acids,
particularly lysine,cystine,methionine and
tryptophan, and is a valuable supplement to
cereal-based diets.
• Fish meal is least degradable in rumen. It is a
source of undegradable protein in ruminants
particularly important for actively growing and
pregnant animals.

6. Production
• Fishmeal is produced by cooking fish and then
pressing the cooked mass to remove most of
the oil and water.
• Then it is dried.
• The dried product is ground so that less than
10 per cent passes a 1 mm screen and more
than 90 per cent passes a 10 mm screen.

8. PRODUCTION
• Global production of fish meal has been stable
for the past two decades at around 5to6
million tons.

9. Inclusion level
• Fish meals are mostly used in dietes for young
animals upto 150kg/t.
• For older animals, it is 50kg/t.
• Fishmeals find their greatest use with simple-
stomached animals.
• For lactating cows, the daily intake of fishmeal
should be limited to not more than 1 kg.

10. Nutritive profile
• It contains
• about 10 percent moisture, 55 percent
protein, 6.9 percent fat
• and 25 percent mineral salt particularly 5.4
percent Ca and 3.4 percent P.
• It contains vitamin A, D and richest source of
vitamin B12.

11. Adulteration
• The fish meal is adulterated with
• sand, urea and salt.

12. Price
• 1398.28 USD per Metric Ton on
November2,2016.