fish meal

or fishmeal

noun

1. dried fish ground for use as fertilizer, animal feed, or an ingredient in other foods.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fish meal¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

One in four boats, about 25% of total fish vessels, are used to process fish meal which is going to feed animals.

From Time

The demand for fish, especially shrimp and salmon, is growing a lot faster than other meats, and they are super-dependent on fish meal.

From Time

Eight state parks and the woodsy beauty of Superior National Forest line the byway, and folksy shoreline towns serve up local fish meals.

From Outside Online

Late summer and autumn shallow-water shrimping is often done using fish meal “bait” to attract shrimp to an area for cast-netting.

From Popular-Science

Then they ate fish-meal with train-oil instead of butter, and for a second course toasted bread and blubber.

From Project Gutenberg

When this fish meal was past the last observance of the fourth day of the Cha′-ka ceremonial was ended.

From Project Gutenberg

I have ordered a fish meal for myself, some salt-fish, some mushrooms and cabbage.

From Project Gutenberg

These we fried in some of its blubber, and so had our only “fresh” fish meal during the whole of our drift on the ice.

From Project Gutenberg