Fishmeal is made by cooking, pressing, drying, and grinding of fish or fish waste into a solid. Most of the water and some or all of the oil is removed. ... Of the several ways of making fishmeal from raw fish, the simplest is to let the fish dry out in the sun before grinding and pressing.

Where does fishmeal come from?

Fishmeal is usually made from ground-up, bony trash fish and forage fish — like anchovy, menhaden or herring — that nobody is clamoring for, anyway.

Who produces fishmeal?

With Peru and Chile as the most prominent fishmeal producers in the world (responsible for approximately 40 per cent of the global output), the El Niño can have a significant adverse effect on global supply of fishmeal.