# eFeedLink - Plant-based salmon feed: Health problems for fish, and for people too?

> eFeedLink reports that the share of salmon feed made up of fishmeal has dropped from 60% to under 20% as world fishmeal production has peaked and declined. Peru's fishmeal output reportedly fell 27% to an estimated 631,000 tonnes in 2016, and world output is back at mid-1970s levels of about 4.09 million tonnes.

- Date: 2017-01-23 · published 2017-01-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region Peru · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/73073-efeedlink-plant-based-salmon-feed-health-problems-for-fish-and-for-people-too
- Commodities: [Fishmeal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FISHMEAL.md), [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md)

## Why it matters

Structurally lower fishmeal output and rising plant-based inclusion in aquafeed support demand for soybean meal and other plant proteins. Fishmeal supply constraints underpin prices over the longer term despite near-term softness.

## Read by commodity

- SBM: bullish ▲
- FISHMEAL: bullish ▲

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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## Sources

- efeedlink.com: https://www.efeedlink.com/contents/01-23-2017/27a71db3-5671-4cb6-9bd7-206930e4e643-1712.html

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