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In Finland, 47 million kilos of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout are consumed annually. Only around 23.4%, that is 11 million kilos, is produced domestically(1). Reducing the environmental impact is a key factor for development of sustainable food production. In Finland, nutrient loading of aquaculture has been successfully reduced during the last decades with better feeding practices, feed development, animal breeding and other actions. Feed conversion ratio (FCR) is the …

The Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre is the global research organisation for Skretting, one of the biggest manufacturers and suppliers of aquaculture feeds. Skretting has long and impressive history – it was established already in 1899 in Stavanger, Norway. Skretting’s products and services are targeted to eight core species: Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, seabass, seabream, shrimp, tilapia and tuna. AquaIMPACT focusses to first four of those. “Our mission is based on …

SPAROS is a Portuguese technology-driven SME dedicated to the development of new products and tailored nutritional solutions for the aquaculture market. It offers the alliance of a strong scientific background in the areas of fish nutrition and aquaculture, with a pilot-scale feed technology platform. SPAROS’ has strong background in the development of tools, focusing on mechanistic modelling and omic technologies, to predict biological performance and feed utilization of fish under …

Traditionally, the base raw materials for aquaculture feeds have been fishmeal and fish oil. Plant-based raw materials have replaced them in major amounts but specific means are needed to fulfill nutritional requirements of fish. Growing global demand for aquafeeds Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing animal food-producing sectors, the global growth exceeding human population growth. In contrast, the production of fishmeal and fish oil, the two traditional key elements …

Plant-based feed raw materials have been revolutionary in terms of reducing the pressure on harvesting wild fish for feed but simultaneously they have been criticized for increasing the competition for land use and environmental deterioration. They also contain certain amounts of anti-nutritional factors that in many cases limit their inclusion at high rates in aquafeeds. New alternative raw materials have the potential to be part of aquafeed formulations without the …

New publication, which is partly funded by AquaIMPACT project, has been published in Frontiers series. The publication Sex, Age, and Bacteria: How the Intestinal Microbiota Is Modulated in a Protandrous Hermaphrodite Fish can be found here as a full text: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02512/full Authors of the publication are M. Carla Piazzon, Fernando Naya-Català, Paula Simó-Mirabet, Amparo Picard-Sánchez, Francisco J. Roig, Josep A. Calduch-Giner, Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla and Jaume Pérez-Sánchez.

Chairperson at the session: Antti Kause (Luke, Finland) In recent years, advancements in enabling technologies have lead to completely novel innovations that are now being implemented within the aquaculture industry. The three Horizon 2020 EU-projects, AquaIMPACT, FutureEUAqua and iFishIENCi, funded under the topic ‘Sustainable European Aquaculture 4.0: Nutrition and Breeding Innovations’ held a common session on these topics at Aquaculture Europe 2019 (AE2019) congress. It is one of the largest …

In Finland, 47 million kilos of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout are consumed annually. Only around 23.4%, that is 11 million kilos, is produced domestically(1). Reducing the environmental impact is a key factor for development of sustainable food production. In Finland, nutrient loading of aquaculture has been successfully reduced during the last decades with better feeding practices, feed development, animal breeding and other actions. Feed conversion ratio (FCR) is the …

Fish from aquaculture is becoming more significant for human consumption. Demand of aquaculture products has steadily increased and global seafood consumption has doubled over the last 15 years. In European Union, per capita consumption reached 24.3 kg in 2016 (Eumofa 2018), but still only around 24% of consumption originates from aquaculture. The majority of Europeans (70%) eat fishery and aquaculture products at home regularly, at least once per month. Respondents …

Dr. Ashie Norris works as a group geneticist in Mowi. Mowi, previously known as Marine Harvest, operates in 14 countries and is the world’s largest salmon farming company with more than 14 500 employees. For Ashie, the company has been a place to work and develop professionally for 20 years. Young horse enthusiastic from Ireland’s midlands thought that horse breeding could be her calling. She studied genetics in Trinity College in …