PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prepare a new krill meal with superior nutritional and technical properties.SOLUTION: The method for producing a krill meal includes following a two step cooking process. In the first step, proteins and phospholipids are removed from the krill and precipitated as a coagulum. In the second step, the krill without phospholipids are cooked. Thereafter, residual fat and astaxanthin are removed from the krill using mechanical separation methods.