Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nutritive mealy substance produced from fish or fish parts and used as animal feed and fertilizer.
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- noun
Ground dried fish , used mainly forlivestock feed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Peru is a leading exporter of silver, copper and gold, as well as fishmeal, which is used as animal feed.
Peru's Ports Still Closed WSJ Staff 2011
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The farmed salmon are fed pellets made from fishmeal, which is a mixture of wild fish ripped from the ocean with a long list of chemicals and hormones added to it, and lead ridiculous lives as unnatural as cows forced to eat GM corn in overcrowded concentration camps.
Maria Rodale: Eat Trash, Save the Planet Maria Rodale 2011
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For example, carnivorous fish such as salmon are fed fishmeal, which is made from wild caught fish.
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The farmed salmon are fed pellets made from fishmeal, which is a mixture of wild fish ripped from the ocean with a long list of chemicals and hormones added to it, and lead ridiculous lives as unnatural as cows forced to eat GM corn in overcrowded concentration camps.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Maria Rodale 2011
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Peruvian anchovies are ground-up into fishmeal, which is primarily used to feed aquaculture fish.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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Peruvian anchovies are ground-up into fishmeal, which is primarily used to feed aquaculture fish.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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Peruvian anchovies are ground-up into fishmeal, which is primarily used to feed aquaculture fish.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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Standard diets contain an assortment of ingredients, and sometimes animal proteins such as fishmeal, the likely source of arsenic.
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The company attributed it to stronger operations from the South Pacific fleet and the Peruvian fishmeal operations.
The Center for Public Integrity: 'Free-for-all' decimates fish stocks in the southern Pacific The Center for Public Integrity 2012
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In the intrigues of fish politics, PacAndes sides with Peru, where it operates 32 vessels and has a share of the anchoveta quota, another species used for fishmeal.
The Center for Public Integrity: 'Free-for-all' decimates fish stocks in the southern Pacific The Center for Public Integrity 2012
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