alaska fish fertilizer

In another thread, John said something about how the alaska fish fertilizer is less than organic.

John, I am prepared to use up what I have and never buy this stuff again.  Can you help me to understand what makes it icky?

The Bullocks use bags of dried fish bits for fertilizer. They get it somewhere on the coast, at least that was practice while I was there. Dave would have details...

It seemed very benign, like the fish-bits are just waste from a major processing place. Some vegans may not want to participate in that, but it IS waste that wouldn't otherwise be used.
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I haven't been involved much with the use, but I know that we use Alaska Fish Fertilizer in our compost tea mix. Currently, we're using a liquid product, but we've usually used a powder. I think we had trouble finding it this spring, but I'm not sure.

Dave

Here is an interesting article on the making of Alaska Brand Fish Emulsion Fertilizer:
http://www.rainyside.com/resources/fishfert.html

Sue