History
The use of fish by-products is not a new idea; it has been used in previous times to feed poultry, pigs and other farmed fish. A primitive form of fishmeal is mentioned in The Travels of Marco Polo at the beginning of the fourteenth century: 'they accustom their cattle, cows, sheep, camels and horses to feed upon dried fish, which being regularly served to them, they eat without any sign of dislike.’ The utilization of herring as an industrial raw material actually started as early as about 800 AD in Norway. A very primitive process of pressing the oil out of herring by means of wooden boards and stones was employed.
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