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At least 80 percent of the ingredients of today's feeds for salmon, trout, sea bream or sea bass are in direct or indirect competition with the human diet: cereal flour, soy, fish meal", Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL- Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau, Schweiz ).
To produce one kilogram of salmon, 1.5 kilograms of fishmeal are needed. For these 1.5 kilos of fishmeal about five to nine kilograms of wild fish are processed. In a kilo of salmon at the counter then five kilos of proteins have flowed.
Fish are fished out of the sea, processed into fishmeal - and fed as feed to other fish. It is this cycle that wastes valuable food in a production process to feed us humans.
The increasing consumption of meat and fish worldwide leads to a protein bottleneck in livestock feeding with massive losses in marine biodiversity. The protection of species is massively endangered, because nobody knows which types of fish are actually processed.
This is especially true for the aqua culture. Most of the fish kept there are predatory fish and the feeding of vegetable protein feed is only conditionally possible. The demand for fishmeal for aquaculture further exacerbates the pressure on global fish stocks. 20 to 25 million tonnes of small fish from the oceans are processed into fishmeal every year.
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