Fishmeal, is a commercial product made from fish and the bones and offal from processed fish. It is a brown powder or cake obtained by drying the fish or fish trimmings, often after cooking, and then grinding it. If it is a fatty fish pressed to extract most of the fish oil.
Fishmeal can be made from almost any type of fish but is generally manufactured from Anchovi (Engraulis Ringens), small marinefish that contain a high percentage of bones and oil. The fish caught for fishmeal purposes solely are termed “industrial”. Other sources of fishmeal are from bycatch of other fisheries and byproducts of trimmings made during processing (fish waste or offal) of various seafood products destined for direct human consumption.