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90 Percent Of Fish We Use For Fishmeal Could Be Used To Feed Humans Instead

Anchoveta are processed at a fish meal factory in Lima, Peru in 2009. Peru and Chile have the world's largest anchoveta fishery, making them the world's largest producers of fish for fishmeal. Ernesto Benavides/Getty Images hide caption

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90 Percent Of Fish We Use For Fishmeal Could Be Used To Feed Humans Instead

February 13, 2017 • Currently, one-fourth of all fish caught globally goes to produce fishmeal and fish oil for farmed seafood, pigs and chickens. A lot of it is "food grade" and could be feeding the world's hungry.