An investigation finds Senegal's fishmeal plants are pulling fish away from local tables
Follows one global feed supply chain back to the town that lives next to the factory.
The Outlaw Ocean Project, excerpted by Mongabay, reports that Senegal's growing fishmeal industry is diverting fish from local markets into factories that make feed for farmed seafood and livestock, much of it exported. At least eight plants were linked to environmental violations, unsustainable fishing or civil unrest between 2018 and 2024. Senegal's fisheries ministry says using whole fish for fishmeal is legal. Reporters visited three factories and interviewed residents, workers and managers.
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Fish meal
After exploring Fishmeal factories take Senegal's fish from the dinner table, for what the factories make, see Fish meal.
Fish meal is made from whole wild-caught fish, bycatch and fish by-products to feed pigs, poultry and farmed fish. Because it's cheap and calorie-dense, it has helped factory farming grow.
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Ian Urbina
After exploring Fishmeal factories take Senegal's fish from the dinner table, the reporter behind the investigation is Ian Urbina.
An American investigative reporter who has written for The New York Times and The Atlantic, author of the bestseller The Outlaw Ocean and founder of The Outlaw Ocean Project.
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