ocean fish meal

What it is

Ocean fish meal is rendered, dried marine fish of unspecified species — the meal form of "ocean fish". Dense protein, like every meal; anonymous sourcing, like every unnamed term.

Why it's in pet food

It gives formulators fish protein at mixed-catch prices with recipe flexibility batch to batch. The nutrition can be real; the accountability is what is missing.

How Bowlmark scores it

Scores are deterministic math over the printed label — the rules below apply to every product identically, and nothing estimates or fills in a blank.

Ocean fish meal matches the engine's unnamed-fish terms: a 10-point deduction on the ingredient-quality pillar. The deduction applies once for the fish class — a label listing ocean fish meal alongside other unnamed fish terms takes one 10-point hit, not several.

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Foods that list ocean fish meal

Ranked by score where scores exist. Placement here is never sold.

• Meow Mix Original Choice59
• Friskies Seafood Sensations Dry Cat Food With Flavors of Salmon, Tuna & Shrimp56
• Friskies Surfin’ & Turfin’ Favorites Dry Cat Food With Flavors of Chicken, Whitefish, Salmon & Filet Mignon56
• Tabby Republic Value Bites Ocean Fish Flavor35

Sources

• WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food

Related ingredients

• mackerel meal
• menhaden fish meal
• ocean fish
• pollock
• salmon
• salmon meal

Further reading

• Protein quality vs quantity — why the % is only half the story
• Storing pet food so it stays the food you bought