Aqua-Spark, the investment fund for sustainable aquaculture, has backed two technology providers it says will make fish healthier and farming more efficient.
French biotech company, Deinove, says its first patent focusing on the use of the bacteria, Deinococcus, for animal nutrition has been issued in China.
Skretting, Nutreco’s fish feed arm, is establishing a new R&D facility in Chile, while also weighing up RAS systems and raw materials as part of a €6m research capacity expansion project.
A five-year EU project has concluded European farmed fish species will still hit nutrition and growth targets with only minimal levels of fishmeal and fish oil in diets based on plant ingredients.
Chilean competition agency, Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE), is reportedly investigating the activities of fish feed companies operating in the country.
A pioneering supply chain collaboration project is said to have yielded a sustainable new fish feed made from wild-caught fish trimmings that are cleaned to remove 95% of the environmental contaminants.
US researchers say two non-GM soybean protein sources could be valuable fishmeal replacement options for juvenile cobia, a species that the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports has massive aquaculture potential.
Barley that doesn’t make the grade for the brewing industry is being turned into a feed ingredient for aquaculture via a patented process that improves its nutritional value.
US aquaculture firm, Bell Farms, has become a fully integrated fish farm with the completion of a new feed mill at its Indiana base that is set to produce around 907 metric tons (MT) of plant-based fish feed monthly.
Nutreco’s fish feed division, Skretting, is ploughing a significant amount of its research funds into the development of alternative proteins to fishmeal for the aquaculture sector.
The new Norwegian feed plant from farmed salmon giant, Marine Harvest, is set to be operational by July with the company ambitious to set up feed sites in other fish farming markets.