How to Use fish meal in a Sentence

fish meal

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  • How about a great fish meal — with a clean conscience on the side?
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
  • The vaccines come in two flavors: fish meal and vanilla.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trident installed a plant at Sand Point to turn waste into fish meal in 1996, so little new debris has been added to the old piles, Plesha said.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2018
  • This Nulo Freestyle recipe is high in protein thanks to its inclusion of fresh salmon and turkey meal, as well as menhaden fish meal.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Efforts to reduce the amount of fish meal used in aquaculture have already paid dividends.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • In December, Cooke bought a Texas producer of fish oil and fish meal in a transaction valued at $500 million.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The manufacturer now also makes plastic packets of the vaccine coated in fish oil and fish meal.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Analysts project that aquaculture feed demands for fish meal and fish oil could outstrip the supply of small forage fish, also known as prey or bait fish, by 2037.
    — Pallab Sarker, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Fertilize first with a high-nitrogen product such as blood meal or fish meal to boost soil nitrogen levels.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 28 Feb. 2017
  • The first two ingredients are fish meal and fish oil to provide your pet with high-quality protein and essential omega-fatty acids.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
  • This is the first proof of concept for a tilapia feed that eliminates fish meal and fish oil while improving growth metrics and the resulting nutritional quality of the fish.
    — Pallab Sarker, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Originally, the residue was used as fertilizer, but since the turn of the 20th century, the oil leftovers have been dried and ground into fish meal for animal feeding.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Capelin is caught and then sold both for direct consumption (its flavor is said to resemble herring), for fish meal and for its roe, or eggs, commonly called masago.
    — Kendra Pierre-Louis, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
  • This dry dog food contains quality ingredients like fish meal, turmeric, and beet pulp.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Target and bait shallow areas with fish meal or pellets, then periodically net over the sunken bait.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Small commercially-made, wire-mesh traps are available, and crabs, oysters, muscles, cat food, fish meal, and bread are all great for attracting baitfish into these traps.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Menhaden are not a popular fish for cooking, but are typically processed into fish oil or fish meal.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 22 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Last week, China exempted certain American imports including shrimp, fish meal, and cancer drugs, followed a couple of days later by US soy beans and pork imports, from its own tariffs.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The list included varieties of animal feed such as alfalfa and fish meal, cancer drugs gefitinib and capecitabine, base oil for lubricants and lubricating grease, and some farm chemicals.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Blue Buffalo Fit & Healthy is made with wholesome ingredients, including chicken, menhaden fish meal, brown rice, flaxseed, and cranberries.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The Chinese government issued tariff exemptions on 16 products, including shrimp, fish meal and cancer treatment drugs.
    — Laura He and Steven Jiang, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Products covered by Wednesday’s exemptions include lubricants, insecticides and whey and fish meal for animal feed.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Fertilizers: Bone and fish meal in fertilizers can be attractive to pets, but eating that can lead to vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy or iron toxicity.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Top 10 Ingredients: Salmon, menhaden fish meal, sweet potatoes, cassava flour, potatoes, sunflower oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), brewers dried yeast, flaxseed, natural flavor, potato protein.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022

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