The 8th in the series of international conferences for aquafeed professionals, Aquafeed Horizons, returns to the Koelnmesse with an outstanding program of talks by industry professionals and leading-edge practical researchers. The focus of this year’s conference will be the interplay of ingredients and processing, with a close look at new ingredients being introduced to aquafeed formulations.
The very latest in applied aquafeed R&D will be strongly represented at this year’s meeting.
Dr. Mari Moren is Director of Research at the food research institute, Nofima, responsible for Nutrition and Feed Technology. The research area carries out research, development and innovation projects, with a special focus on research into new feed raw materials, feed technology and questions related to nutrition. She will give a view of the future demands in salmon feed production and present possibilities from the viewpoint of a research institute working on R&D throughout the whole value chain in aquaculture.
Dr. Olav Fjeld Kraugerud, leads the Centre for Feed Technology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway. In this role he works with customers in both academia and industry. He says the challenge of always making feed in new ways leads to innovation, as new demands are imposed on both hardware and processes. Dr. Kraugerud will look at novel ingredients and give examples of results from trials performed with krill meal, gluten and plant meals. He will present data on the viability of tailor-made processing for feed recipes with a diversified protein portfolio - and promises to reveal an exciting new and innovative tool for feed production.
Dr. Jorge Dias, together with Luis Conceição are the managing partners of SPAROS Lda, Portugal, a technology-driven SME dedicated to the development of new products and tailored nutritional solutions for the aquaculture market. Dr. Dias’s talk will be on results from the Advanced Research Initiatives for Nutrition & Aquaculture (ARRAINA) project, a European FP7-funded Collaborative Project coordinated by INRA and associating 21 institutions, among which are 9 industrial partners.
The overall objective of the ARRAINA project is develop sustainable alternative aquaculture feeds tailored to the nutritional requirements of the 5 main European farmed fish species, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata), European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio), over their full life cycles, with reduced levels of fish meal and fish oil; and assess the long term physiological consequences by applying targeted integrative tools that accurately measure and predict the effects of alternative feeds on fish metabolism and health. The project is using these tools to develop alternative feeds and novel delivery vectors for early life stages of fish and study the long-term effects of these alternative feeds on metabolism, performance, quality and waste management over the full life-cycle (from egg to broodstock). ARRAINA is also exploring the concept of nutritional programming in fish.
Dr. Dias will focus on new knowledge generated on the fine tuning of the dietary supply of trace elements in larvae and juvenile feeds, relying on the use of innovative delivery vectors such as microencapsulated and nano-sized mineral forms and a closer look on the interactions among trace elements and other nutrients. Activities on the effect of vegetable ingredients on physical pellet criteria and fecal properties will be discussed. A predictive tool to compare the environmental impact (total, N and P waste) of different feed formulations developed for gilthead seabream will also be presented.
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Aquafeed Horizons 2015 will take place from 9am to 5pm, June 9, 2015 in the Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany. Pre-registration is required for a guaranteed place in this popular conference and you are urged not to delay. Special rates are available for students and groups. “Early Bird” rates are available until March 31.
