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Originally Posted by warrenslaney
Whilst working on a Marine Harvest farm in the early 80's the FCR's were well down for a long period. The diver found the reason for this when he discovered a small hill of uneaten fish meal sludge off the end of the cages. It soon came to light that the weekend detail, who should have been feeding a ton each day, were jettisoning the lot.
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I 'discovered' that one of my staff was doing the same thing on his weekends on - simply cutting open bags of food and emptying up to half a tonne a day into the river! I only found out because the farmer, who owned the land, had watched him doing it
The same guy had been 'disciplined' by me several weeks earlier because the food in the store was way out when the bags were counted just before a new delivery - as if he hadn't fed anything at all on his weekend to work. He obviously decided the easiest way to make the count tally was to tip the bags out - instead of feeding the fish! He was eventually sacked when I checked up on Boxing day and found he'd gone home (250 miles away) on Xmas eve and left the farm unattended - despite asking specifically if he could work at Xmas
His family was quite shocked to receive a phone call asking where he was - as he had told them he'd got Xmas off to be with them
The amount of fishmeal in the feeds had been going down for several years before I left the industry (in 1999) as the price was increasing and the food producers found ways of adding more plant and animal protein instead of fish. I remember that lot of dried blood from abattoirs was being used. Trout and salmon are not good at digesting plant protein, even when cooked, so I think there will always be a quite a high proportion of fishmeal used in their feeds.
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