BioMar, a Danish Company, is one of the leading suppliers of “high performance” fish feed to the aquaculture industry worldwide. BioMar operates 13 feed factories including one at Grangemouth, Scotland. According to its own figures, roughly one out of five farmed fish produced in Europe, South and Central America is fed on BioMar fish feed. Worldwide, the BioMar Group supplies feed to around 60 countries and to more than 45 different fish species.
A recent fire at the Grangemouth plant had SEPA responding to complaints of “fishy smells”. So, what was causing the smell? On investigation of BioMar’s website, and specifically their 2017 Sustainability Report these are the fish used in fishmeal and fish oil feed: Read more…