The Marine Ingredients Organisation (IFFO) welcomed this week's vote in the European Parliament to ban discards of healthy fish, saying it could be used to level out the volatile fishmeal market.

“The supply of fishmeal and fish oil is not meeting current demand and raw material that could be used to supply these needs is currently being dumped at sea or on land," said Andrew Mallison, director General of IFFO.

"There is also an environmental imperative to process by-products rather than dumping them."

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