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

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Current and potential alternative

food uses of the Argentine

anchoita (Engraulis anchoita) in

Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil

L.S. Pastous Madureira and J.P. Castello
Fisheries Technology and Pelagic Resources Laboratories, Institute of Oceanography
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande RS, Brazil
C. Prentice-Hernández, M.I. Queiroz, M.L. Espírito Santo and W.A. Ruiz
Institute of Chemistry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande RS, Brazil
P. Raggi Abdallah
Department of Economics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande RS, Brazil
J. Hansen, M.I. Bertolotti and E. Manca
National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, Mar del Plata, Argentina
M.I. Yeannes
National Council for Technological and Scientific Research, Engineering Faculty
Mar del Plata University, Argentina
N. Avdalov
INFOPESCA, Centre for Marketing Information and Advisory Services
for Fishery Products in Latin America and the Caribbean, Uruguay
S. Fernández Amorín
Fisheries Research Institute of the Veterinary Faculty of the La Republica University
La Paloma campus, Uruguay

Pastous Madureira, L.S., Castello, J.P., Prentice-Hernández, C., Queiroz, M.I.,
Espírito Santo, M.L., Ruiz, W.A., Raggi Abdallah, P., Hansen, J., Bertolotti, M.I.,
Manca, E., Yeannes, M.I., Avdalov, N. and Fernández Amorín, S. 2009. Current
and potential alternative food uses of the Argentine anchoita (Engraulis anchoita) in
Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. 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. 269–287.

Summary 270

1. The biological aspects and distribution of anchoita in the South
   West Atlantic Ocean 271


2. Anchoita processing in South America 274


3. Economic and social aspects of current and potential alternative
   uses of anchoita in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil 281
   References 285