Most are either destined for human consumption, such as canned sardines, or reduced to fish meal and oil to serve as feed for chickens, pigs and farmed salmon or other carnivorous fish.

• 其中大部份会进入人们的肚子，例如成为沙丁鱼罐头；不然就变成鱼渣粉、鱼油，用来喂鸡、喂猪，还有养殖的鲑鱼与其他肉食性鱼类。