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Quality and Best Practice
Our Members strive to retain the full nutritional value of the fish from the sea. Quality standards are upheld using best practice and traceability all the way from high seas catch via modern fishmeal and fish oil processing techniques through to the end user.
Animal health, welfare and productivity
Fishmeal and fish oil improve animal health and welfare ensuring high quality livestock especially in young and breeding animals. The same is true for farmed fish and crustaceans, particularly carnivorous species such as salmonids and shrimp. Fishmeal is a natural ingredient of high nutritional value, and its use in livestock feeds can offer cost-effective production, optimising health or meat quality in the final product.
Human health and nutrition
Oily fish are the major source of omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, which are now recognised world-wide as a key factor in human health.
A major part of the oily fish caught is inedible. Thanks to fishmeal and fish oil production, EPA and DHA contained in these fish can be returned to the human food chain via fish oil supplements, as well as via farmed fish and even livestock. This is equivalent to almost half of all the EPA and DHA provided by human consumption of wild edible fish.
Responsible management of feed grade fisheries
The fishmeal and fish oil industry believes it is necessary that feed-grade (ie.industrial)fisheries continue to be controlled and managed by Government organisations based on scientific advice in order to maintain this resource in a manner that is biologically, economically and socially sound. To this end the fishmeal and fish oil industry is fully supportive of official Government fishery policy which will achieve the above objectives.
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