ABSTRACT
Research to produce FPC started as early as the 1890s in Norway (Bakken, 1962), in 1937 in South Africa (Dreosti), and in 1938 in Iceland (Hannesson). After World War 11, a wider interest was shown in the concept of fish protein concentrate, largely due to a growing awareness of the rapid and possibly exponential growth of the world's population and the resulting danger of insufficient food being available to provide adequate nutrition to many peoples. This eventuality was already apparent in some regions where already too little food was available to provide for rapidly multiplying local populations or where the food supply had an inadequate nutritional balance.
