![]() In the past five years, vegetable protein meal production has increased 10% while fish meal production has dropped over 50%, since 1989, largely attributed to overfishing and serious decline in wild stock. A variety of other proteinaceous commodities are being considered as partial or complete replacement for fish meal, especially use of plant protein sources such as soybean meal. As requirements for aquafeeds increases, shortages are anticipated in various ingredients, especially widely used proteinaceous resources such as fish meal. , penaeid shrimps and salmonids, are making major demands on feed ingredients, while relatively new industries, such as til apia farming, portent a significant acceleration in demand for properly formulated aquafeeds by the end of the present decade and into the next century. Aquaculture industries raising particular economically valued species, i. , vitamins, minerals, and therapeutics, all used in varying degrees in proper feed formulation. Latest information has identified over 1,200 such companies, not including those organizations in production of a variety of other materials, i. Current growth in global aquaculture is paralleled by an equally significant increase in companies involved in aquafeed manufacture. ![]()
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