Nutrition

A new type of feeding system that uses water, rather than air, to deliver feed pellets from a feed barge to its surrounding cages has shown to be effective at a commercial salmon site.

A new vessel built to transport krill for the aquafeed sector from the Southern Ocean has been launched by Aker BioMarine.

Calysta, which aims to produce 1000,000 tonnes of microbial protein for the aquaculture feed sector within the next five years, has appointment of food and feed innovation veteran Dr Geoff Bryant as its chief technology …

Marine Akwa is currently in the process of developing a range of probiotics – based on marine organisms – for the finfish aquaculture industry, in a bid to improve growth rates, survival levels and health benefits.

Researchers have developed a cost-effective “fish-free” feed for carnivorous marine finfish, in which fishmeal and fish oil have been replaced by poultry meal and algal oil respectively.

How a newcomer to aquaculture is upgrading the technology and adopting novel local feed ingredients to bring out the best in his family's tilapia and catfish farm.

Asia continues to be an attractive market for investments in the aquafeed sector, despite a number of challenges, according to a new report by Rabobank.

Aquafeed manufacturer BioMar increased sales by 9 percent and revenues by 7 percent compared to the second quarter of 2019.

One of the world’s top tilapia hatcheries has traced a radical upturn in the proportion of female tilapia in their normally all-male stock back to changes in the antioxidants used by their feed provider.

A form of canola that’s been genetically modified so that it contains omega-3 oil, has been approved to be grown and consumed - both by farmed fish and humans - in Canada.

Catfish production in Nigeria is hugely popular – with a booming domestic market as well as strong export sales – and currently accounts for over 80 percent of the country’s aquaculture output.

Fisheries and aquaculture byproducts and insect meal have a bigger role to play in the sustainable growth of the aquafeed sector over the next two decades than microbial or macroalgal-based feed ingredients.

Cambridge scientists have developed a new way to fortify shellfish to tackle human nutrient deficiencies which cause severe health problems across the world.

Insect technology company Protenga has raised US $1.6 million from Roslin Technologies and Seeds Capital.

A ground-breaking carbon recycling project, which aims to produce aquafeed ingredients from waste CO2, has launched today.

Improving the quality of Artemia used in hatcheries has been made possible by a series of new tools launched by INVE Aquaculture.

A project that aims to use microalgae to capture carbon dioxide from power plant flue gases has been awarded $3 million from US Department of Energy (DOE).

Aller Flow is a new feed designed for Atlantic Salmon raised in recirculated aquaculture systems.

Mowi has pledged to only use deforestation-free soy in its own brand fish feeds from 2021.