fish meal
noun
: ground dried fish and fish waste used as fertilizer and animal food
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The manufacturer now also makes plastic packets of the vaccine coated in fish oil and fish meal. 
Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022 Extensive research has shown that black soldier fly larvae can be fed to chickens, pigs and fish as a replacement for conventional protein feeds such as soybean meal and fish meal. Merritt Drewery, The Conversation, 28 June 2022 One in four boats, about 25% of total fish vessels, are used to process fish meal which is going to feed animals. Eben Shapiro, Time, 26 Sep. 2021 Then, before planting cloves, work a couple tablespoons of 5-10-10 complete fertilizer, bone meal or fish meal into the soil several inches below where the base of the garlic will rest. oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021 In addition to class, students often come in during free periods and on weekends, since the fish need their sprinkle of fish meal, enhanced with vitamins and minerals, daily. Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2021 How is fish-meal production, catching fish to be ground up into fish meal to feed farmed fish, harming biodiversity? Eben Shapiro, Time, 26 Sep. 2021 The male fish have almost no value and are mostly turned into fish meal, sold as bait or ground up and dumped. Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2021 Food constitutes roughly seventy per cent of the industry’s overhead, and so far the only commercially viable form is fish meal. Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021 See More
Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022 Extensive research has shown that black soldier fly larvae can be fed to chickens, pigs and fish as a replacement for conventional protein feeds such as soybean meal and fish meal. Merritt Drewery, The Conversation, 28 June 2022 One in four boats, about 25% of total fish vessels, are used to process fish meal which is going to feed animals. Eben Shapiro, Time, 26 Sep. 2021 Then, before planting cloves, work a couple tablespoons of 5-10-10 complete fertilizer, bone meal or fish meal into the soil several inches below where the base of the garlic will rest. oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021 In addition to class, students often come in during free periods and on weekends, since the fish need their sprinkle of fish meal, enhanced with vitamins and minerals, daily. Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2021 How is fish-meal production, catching fish to be ground up into fish meal to feed farmed fish, harming biodiversity? Eben Shapiro, Time, 26 Sep. 2021 The male fish have almost no value and are mostly turned into fish meal, sold as bait or ground up and dumped. Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2021 Food constitutes roughly seventy per cent of the industry’s overhead, and so far the only commercially viable form is fish meal. Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1854, in the meaning defined above