Fish as feed inputs for aquaculture: practices, sustainability and implications

308 Fish as feed inputs for aquaculture – Practices, sustainability and implications

TABLE 11

Production of main processed fish products, 1995–2005 (thousand tonnes)

1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Total

fishery

landing

7 411 6 726 5 905 3 362 5 118 4 486 4 151 4 621 3 971 5 176 4 531

Fishmeal 1 553 1 399 1 225 643 1 000 877 778 843 705 988 827

Fish oil 326 292 206 107 201 180 141 128 130 194 169

Frozen fish 174 179 216 226 223 288 390 380 378 447 480

Fresh fish 39 77 74 78 73 99 135 128 164 164 199

Preserved

fish^84 79 118 117 110 110 108 286 115 116 109

Peptones* 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 2

Total

processed

products

2 176 2 025 1 839 1 170 1 608 1 555 1 551 1 767 1 49 4 1 912 1 786

* Peptones are protein hydrolysates that are soluble in water and not heat coagulable. These products may have significant value for the

fisheries industries because their market prices are somewhat higher than those of the usual by-products such as fish silage and fishmeal.

Source: SERNAPESCA (2006)

with an increase of around 176 percent and 411

percent, respectively. The total production of frozen

products has increased from 174 to 480 thousand

tonnes, whereas that of fresh chilled products

grew from 39 to 199 thousand tonnes. Production

of canned fish products has stagnated during the

same period, the average annual growth being -3.3

percent (Figure 18).

3.2.1 Frozen products

In 2005, the total production of frozen products

was 480 thousand tonnes, of which 90 percent

correspond to fish (432 thousand tonnes), 8.7

percent to molluscs (42 thousand tonnes), 1 percent

to crustaceans (4.6 thousand tonnes) and 0.3 percent

to other species (1.5 thousand tonnes). Of the

production of frozen fish, 55 percent corresponds to

TABLE 10
Number of processing plants in Chile by product line and region, 2006

Chilean region

Product line I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII RM Total

Fishmeal 5 2 3 4 2 0 0 20 0 4 1 0 0 41

Frozen fish 4 10 6 30 28 2 1 44 1 115 12 36 13 302

Preserved fish 1 0 1 6 0 0 0 14 0 22 0 5 0 49

Fresh fish 14 17 12 14 11 0 0 15 2 70 8 27 9 199

Smoked fish 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 20 0 0 1 26

Fish preserved

in salt 103 00 00 0 00 30 1 017

Other fish 13 11 24 8 3 0 0 38 0 17 1 4 7 126

Total 47 43 46 63 44 2 1 133 5 251 22 73 30 760

Source: SERNAPESCA (2006)

FIGURE 15

Production (tonnes) and percent

distribution of main fishery processed

products, 2005

Source: SERNAPESCA (2006)

996 034

479 829(27%) (56%)

199 000

(11%)

109 198

(6%) (<1%)2 359

Fishmeal and fish oil Frozen fish

Peptones

Fresh fish Preserved fish