Quality food is produced from quality feed: marine ingredients are key ingredients for fish, with aquafeed being the major market (taking 65-70% of the material), pigs, poultry, and pets. Marine ingredients provide them with recognised superior nutrition. Those nutrients are then passed on to a very wide range of consumers. Marine ingredients are also used in the nutraceutical sector.

Marine ingredients play an essential role in global food security: fishmeal and fish oil come from both forage fish and by-products (resulting from fish processing that would otherwise be discarded). The increasing use of by-products is providing an essential additional raw material source to support the fast growing aquaculture industry. For the last ten years, the production of fishmeal and fish oil has been relatively stable at approximately 5 million tonnes of fishmeal, and 1 million tonnes of fish oil. 1kg wild fish gives 5kg farmed fish across global production systems. 

Committed to responsible supply chains: this is a complex value chain spreading across the world, with decades of knowledge and robust certification standards to support their sustainability credentials. Almost half of the global supply of marine ingredients is  sourced and produced against the MarinTrust standard.

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