I heard that anchovies are harvested from the ocean, sold for one dollar per ton, and used for fertilizer. I?

Question

Is that true? Could that be one reason why the fish populations are down?

Answer 1

Anchovies...

http://www.american.edu/TED/anchovy.htm

http://www.american.edu/TED/guano.htm

and when the anchovy stocks colapse in some areas, either the fleets go to other areas or change target.

About the one dollar part: if a fishing ship main capture is, for example, sardines and during the process they catched a "few" anchovies (depends on the ship really), what do you think it's better, to sell them or to trough it back to the sea?

There is not just one reason for stocks to be down. How do you explain that countries almost without sea have considerable fishing fleets? They take their fleets to other waters...usually to waters that belong to countries that cannot compete with their fishing fleets (either size or tech).

Answer 2

that isnt true. theres no way in h**l they sell any kind of fish for $1 per ton. its just not economical.

Answer 3

not anchovies but there is a type of sardine that is harvested along the Atlantic coast of Africa they are dried on the shore and sold for fertilizer very cheap it was in a National Geographic ages ago remember reading it(10years ago)

Answer 4

I doubt it.... they also put it on pizza, and use it as food...

Answer 5

Does this sound logical to you? It costs more than $1 per ton to harvest the fish from the ocean. The fishermen would go bankrupt if this was true.