Ridley developing new sustainable fish meal

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  Ridley is developing a new fish meal made from the trimmings of fish being processed for human consumption.

  From WATTAgNet:
  Australian animal nutrition company Ridley is developing a new fish meal made from the trimmings of fish being processed for human consumption.
  Trials of the new sustainable fish meal are proving successful at Australian Prawn Farms in Queensland.
  Traditionally, prawn farms use fish meal made from wild-caught fish. Australian Prawn Farms general manager Matt West said the results show the new fish meal is as effective as the traditional method.
  "Within a couple of weeks, we will analyze the data and know how it goes, but preliminary results show that it's very, very good and, in fact, it is like for like with the current diet that it's evolved from," he said.
  The incentives for the industry to perfect the new feed include environmental sustainability and cost.
  And quality for the consumer still will be high, as the prawns still are being fed fish, rather than an artificial alternative. Because prawns are natural scavengers, they are suited to eating trimmings and byproducts from fish processing.
  "Instead of that going to waste or dog food or something else, Ridley are taking those trimmings a created a fish meal product," West said. "It is still fish. It's just not wild-caught fish."