# This popular fish is now being fed chicken meat: What's really on your plate?

> Several Norwegian salmon producers are replacing part of the fishmeal and fish oil in their feed with processed poultry meal and oil. The shift follows pressure on marine ingredient supplies, including disruption to Peru's anchovy fishery. Poultry meal is reported to cost less than half as much per tonne as fishmeal.

- Date: 2026-11-03 · published 2026-11-03T03:06:08.664Z
- Category: market · region Europe · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/76853-this-popular-fish-is-now-being-fed-chicken-meat-what-s-really-on-your-plate
- Commodities: [Fishmeal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FISHMEAL.md), [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Substitution of cheaper poultry meal for fishmeal reduces fishmeal demand from salmon farms, which partly offsets tight supply. It also shows how high fishmeal prices are pushing feed formulators toward alternative proteins.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: neutral
- FISHMEAL: bullish ▲

## Sources

- euroweeklynews.com: https://euroweeklynews.com/2026/11/03/this-popular-fish-is-now-being-fed-chicken-meat-whats-really-on-your-plate/

---
Data from Feedsoft AI (https://feedsoft.ai/). For information only; not investment advice.