The Keuringsdienst van Waarde devoted an episode to the fish oil capsule. If you watch it back here, you will see that this was painful for many fish oil brands because the most important source of fish oil in the world was exposed. German biologist and expert on South America and its fish oil industry, Stefan Austermühle, was very helpful here).

The Keuringsdienst van Waarde showed that it takes 30 anchovies to make 1 fish oil capsule.

We have put the differences between this South American fish oil (made from whole anchovies and sardines or deep-sea fish as it is often cryptically described) and Arctic Blue's Norwegian fish oil (made from cod fillet trimmings) in an infographic.

Conclusion
From Arctic Blue MSC fish oil, you can be 100% sure that it is made without overfishing or adverse effects on the environment, seabirds, marine mammals and local populations.

A Norwegian TV crew dug a little deeper into the South American fish oil industry. And they came up with the following report, which includes pieces in English:

• https://tv.nrk.no/serie/forbrukerinspektoerene/MDHP11004511/09-11-2011
• https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mhm7_the-greed-of-feed_news
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-9V67mDXc

The latter is a report by investigative journalists from The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and IDL-Reporteros, from a few years ago and shows how fish oil is made in South America.