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Reports from the World Nutrition Forum in Cancun, Mexico

Aquaculture: Can we scale up novel feed raw materials in a sustainable way?

By Jane Byrne

The aquaculture industry’s progress on sustainability relies on diversifying the types of ingredients it uses in its feed formulations but the drive to extend the raw material basket with novel inputs such as insect meals, single cell proteins and algal...

New Skretting facility for shrimp and fish feed in Mangrol, Surat in India © Skretting

Skretting opens new shrimp and fish feed facility in India

By Jane Byrne

Skretting, a division of Dutch group Nutreco, has inaugurated a new high-end production facility for shrimp and fish feed in Mangrol, Surat. It allows the feed manufacturer to further enhance its support for the Indian aquaculture sector.

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Higher prices drive profits for BioMar

By Jane Byrne

BioMar says it grew its reported revenue by 41% in Q3, even with slightly lower volume sales than last year, while earnings recovered significantly compared to the same quarter in 2021.

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Seaweed trumps maize as biofloc substrate

By Lynda Searby

Scientists in Mexico have discovered that kelp is a better nucleation site than maize meal for developing biofloc, producing fish with a higher end weight and a lower feed conversion ratio (FCR).

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Austria's Delacon enters aqua market

By Jane Byrne

Delacon is looking to bring along a full phytogenic solution to aquaculture practices. It is entering the sector with a premixture, branded as Syrena Boost, that, it says, targets gut performance and productivity.

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Most popular stories in September 2019

By Jane Byrne

We take a trawl through the archives but only as far back as last month to see what were the stories that gained the most traction with the audience. Again, Cargill related developments proved to be of interest to readers, and the click to open rate was...