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36% of all marine fish caught are used to feed animals, according to a new study on forage fish from the Sea Around Us project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. “Forage fish” were so named because they often wind up as meals for other fish, marine mammals, or birds. Today we catch 30 million tonnes of these small, wild fish and grind them up into fish meal and oil to feed chicken, fish, and pigs.
— Save Our Oceans, Eat Like a Pig:  Let’s stop wasting tasty fish on animal feed article by Jennifer Jacquet