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

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Use of wild fish and other aquatic

organisms as feed in aquaculture

• a review of practices and

implications in the Americas

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Albert G.J. Tacon^2
Aquatic Farms Ltd.
49-139 Kamehameha Hwy, Kaneohe, HI 96744
United States of America

Tacon, A.G.J. 2009. Use of wild fish and other aquatic organisms as feed in aquaculture

• a review of practices and implications in the Americas. In M.R. Hasan and M. Halwart
  (eds.). Fish as feed inputs for aquaculture: practices, sustainability and implications.
  FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper. No. 518. Rome, FAO. pp. 159-207.

(^1) The geographic scope of this review encompasses Latin America and North America, with special
emphasis on Peru, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Panama and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in
Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States of America and Canada in North America.
(^2) Current address: Grupo de Investigación en Acuicultura (GIA), ULPGC & ICCM, PO Box 56, 35200-
Telde, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
Summary 160

1. Introduction 162


2. Regional aquaculture overview 162


3. Use of capture fishery products in animal feeds 165


4. Sustainability of reduction fisheries and feed use 182


5. Environmental impacts of fish-fed aquaculture 191


6. Potential alternative uses of feed-fish species 192


7. Feed-fish issues of regional importance 195


8. Summary of major findings and recommendations 197
   References 199