Nutrition

Adam Taylor, founder of the largest tilapia producer in Africa, sees huge scope for improvements in the sector - in particular driven by advances in nutrition and genetics.

Agtech startup Ÿnsect, a leading insect protein and fertiliser producer, has joined the invitation-only World Economic Forum's Global Innovators Community.

Skretting Italy can now provide extensive carbon footprint figures for each aquafeed in its nutrition portfolio, allowing producers to take decisive action on sustainability pledges.

Sarah Riddle, director of business engagement at the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), looks at four key areas where the sector is likely to evolve during the next 12 months.

The survival rate of juvenile marine finfish in aquaculture hatcheries could be on the cusp of improvement following a new research breakthrough.

Successful and profitable farming of aquatic animals, whether fish or crustaceans, really can be defined by one measure – growth performance – which is a combined result of several factors which will be discussed below.

The first six companies to registration for the latest F3 Challenge – which is offering three $100,000 prizes for the makers of fish feed containing no fish – have been revealed.

The addition of certain species of benthic algae and snails to aquaculture systems can help to improve the growth and survival rates of giant tiger prawns, as well as boost the profitability of their production.

Probiotics can alleviate some of the negative stress effects generated by catfish farming while improving other production metrics like growth rates and feed conversion ratios, according to the authors of a new study.

If the Norwegian salmon farming sector used European, instead of Brazilian, soya in its aquafeeds it could reduce its CO2 emissions by 41 percent, according to new research.

Candidates for future aquafeed ingredients – including algae, krill, copepods, insects, yeasts, bacteria and animal and vegetable by-products – are being assessed as part of a new project that aims to improve the climate…

An in vitro modelling device that simulates the digestive system of a salmon, allowing researchers to assess the digestibility of feed ingredients without as many costly feed trials, has been validated by the results of …

Adding one enzyme to aquafeeds can improve their digestbility, while another enables a reduction in the levels of phosporous required in feeds, according to Daniel Arana, Natalia Soares and Rob Serwata from Huvepharma.

The developers of Sweden’s largest land-based salmon farm have signed an agreement with BioMar for to provide feed for their 100,000-tonne facility.

Investment firms in the aquaculture sector are looking at the seafood industry’s broader canvas for profits instead of solely focusing on biomass.

The growth of grouper aquaculture has been held back by the difficulties experienced in the larval rearing stage. However, according to CFEED, the use of copepods at the first feeding stage is leading to marked improveme…

Researchers in the Philippines are trialling the use of nutritious green “spaghetti algae” in fish and shrimp feeds, in a bid to reduce feed costs.

InnovaFeed has announced plans to build “the world’s largest insect protein production site” with ADM in the US.

Plans for the commercial production of a genetically-modified strain of Camelina that can be used as alternative to fish oil in aquafeeds are gaining momentum.

Green bonds – a way to raise money for environmentally beneficial projects – could help to finance the sustainable growth of the $107 billion global aquafeed industry.