On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:14:20 -0700, Mike
wrote:

On 17 Sep, 05:04, wrote:

Seems you did some research.

Ya think? And might you guess that someone with a coupla-three books
that cost nearly $1000USD, readily at hand, would have at least some
info on the subject?

Makes no difference, the wild protein to
fishmeal conversion ratio is the same, regardless of the percentage of
the fishmeal in the feed, and the various feed percentages are taken
into account when calculating THE AMOUNT OF FISHMEAL required to
achieve a certain poundage of farmed fish, this is regardless of the
rest of the feed involved.

And the amount of fish (wet pounds) going into a wet pound of "finished
product" is dropping dramatically, which you might know if you had done
more than skim Google links. It has dropped from about 3 lbs. just 3-4
years ago to close to 1.5 lbs now and is on its way to about 1 lb. by
2010. And with mad cow, the agriculture protein is consuming more of
the fishmeal via feed than the aquaculture - IOW, basically, EU cows are
eating more fish than the fish...

If you had been somewhat more thorough, you would have discovered
that, and also that one can not grow on farmed salmonids without the
fish meal. The lipids in meal or oil additives are essential.

Yes, one can, and no, they aren't. But either way, fish meal isn't a
poison in and of itself, and not all fish meal has elevated levels of
PCB, dioxin, etc. IAC, various veg oils can be and are used, as is other
sources of protein.

So **** you as well sonny boy.

Hee-hee-hee,
R



MC