Anchovies have been used in making feed pellets for trout rearing farms for decades. Left over fish market fish have been used for chicken feed or fertilizer for centuries.
More nonsense by eco terrorists.
Fish for human consumption are worth 10 to 100 times more than as fodder for cattle. (including cats, birds, tropical fish, and fertilizer)
Most of this fish is either byproduct from the preparation of human foods, bycatch (undesirable catch from target fishing) or unsuitable for human consumption. In those rare cases where fish desired by humans are used for fodder the catch exceeds market demand.
Article quotes:
"Skyrocketing pressure on small wild fishes may be putting entire marine food webs at great risk."
"The use of forage fish for animal husbandry competes directly with human consumption in some areas of the world," the authors write. Excessive removal of forage fish could also hurt populations of seabirds and marine mammals that rely upon them as food."
"Whatever people take out of the sea needs to be carefully calibrated to ensure that sufficient fish are left to sustain populations of other fish, seabirds and marine mammals which all play a major role in the healthy functioning of the world's oceans."
About menhaden:
Old Professer noted: The problem as these alarmists see it is that there are simply too many humans or humans themselves are harmful to the planet and its pristine waters.
There is no doubt that the large human population and our capability for altering the environment in numerous ways to serve the needs of humanity has an impact on the environment. Resources which serve the needs of humanity have limits beyond which they will become either uneconomic to utilize or insufficient to serve the need which they once served. There are numerous examples of "wild" resources (this does not necessarily mean a biological resource; "wild" is used to indicate a resource which is either not renewable, such as mineral ores, or not acquired in a manner that enables it to resist depletion) that have been substantially depleted by human activity. (Simple example: U.S. East Coast and upper Midwest hardwood forests. Paul Bunyan's out of business in Minnesota, dontcha know.)
In order for humanity to maintain the lifestyle to which it has become accustomed with an increasing population and increasing pressures on natural resources, inefficiencies and waste will have to be reduced and some traditional "time-honored" ways of doing things will have to change.
But I suspect you already knew that.