Nutrition

A new study indicates that baker’s yeast enhances growth performance, feed utilisation and disease resistance in freshwater catfish.

The fisheries responsible for producing the fish meal and fish oil used in the aquafeed sector play a vital part in fulfilling the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs).

One of world’s largest reduction fisheries has signed an agreement with the flagship responsible sourcing standard for marine ingredients, in a bid to improve the overall sustainability of the global …

VakSea, which bio-manufactures functional feed additives for fish and shrimp, has won the won the AquaSG ‘19 conference Aquaculture Innovation Challenge.

Leading aquafeed producer BioMar is going to start using a DNA test to measure the species composition of the marine ingredients it uses in its feeds.

Nigeria’s United Fish Farmers Cooperative Society benefitted from a one-day seminar on best practice in fish farming, processing and value chain opportunities this week.

The Antarctic Southern Ocean krill. krill fishery – which provides raw materials for the aquafeed industry – is the only reduction fishery on the planet to receive an ‘A’ rating from the Sustainable F…

New sources of omega-3 are safe to use in commercial fish feed.

Although 88 percent of the fishmeal and fish oil sourced from European and Latin American reduction fisheries comes from stocks that are at least “reasonably well-managed,” there remains "a critical n…

A new study finds that feeding black soldier fly larvae to salmon at the sea-water stage did not impair the physio-chemical quality of the finished salmon fillets.

Veramaris has won the F3 Fish Oil Challenge in a challenge that has saved "2 billion forage fish from use in aquaculture feeds

Skretting has allocated $2 million for the development of novel aquaculture feed ingredients in 2020 as it bids to help create effective alternatives to the use of “finite marine ingredients” such as …

A new study demonstrates that using probiotics when producing white shrimp larvae – not just in the grow-out stage – can help reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses and other pollutants.

Algae producer SuSeWi is embarking on a visionary project that aims to create “the largest algae farm on earth” – in order to produce a valuable source of protein and long-chain omega-3s for the aquaf…

A recently developed high protein product, Prairie AquaTech’s Me-Pro, is now authorised to be sold as an ingredient for aquafeeds in Europe.

INVE Aquaculture’s Frippak range – which can be used alongside Artemia for feeding larval shrimp – has scooped the award for the Best Functional Product in Chinese Aquaculture Feed Industry 2019.

A new report by the Dutch-based Changing Markets Foundation claims that retailers, including top UK supermarkets, are linked to “illegal, unsustainable fishing operations in India, Vietnam and The Gam…

The Scottish salmon farming sector has been quick to distance itself from the use of unsustainably-sourced fish meal and fish oil in its feeds.

A new trial suggests that diets containing micro-organisms produced from waste wood look promising for salmon aquaculture.

Diets containing a mixture of plant oil and fish oil can stimulate both salmon and humans to produce their own long chain omega-3 fats, according to new research from Nofima.