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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jackson Ambole Okata

Maggots to the rescue: innovative food waste solution may help wild fish populations too

Two fishers work on a wooden boat off the coast of Mombasa, Kenya.
Two fishers work on a wooden boat off the coast of Mombasa, Kenya. Photograph: Oleg_0/Getty Images

A group of young Kenyans are working on an unusual solution to the problems of food waste and fish feed produced unsustainably from wild-caught fish stocks: maggots.

The larvae of the black soldier fly are now devouring unwanted food in projects around the world. Their excrement, known as frass, can be used as a fertiliser for land-based crops, and their protein-rich bodies, harvested before they turn into flies, can be fed to livestock.

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