2023 has been a challenging year for aquafeed manufacturers due to the high price of raw materials and low seafood prices. Aquafeed.com talked with some feed technology suppliers to get their insights and how they see 2024.

In this final part of the series, we will discuss how the fishmeal and fish oil shortage and high prices are impacting the aquafeed industry and the potential effects on aquafeed producers and farmers in the medium term.

In the EU’s quest to be less dependent on importing proteins for animal feed, alternatives must be viable and competitive. Insect-derived ingredients tick a lot of boxes to be the right candidate. Speakers at the recently held IPIFF annual conference addressed this once more.

NovoBind’s novel biotherapeutic solutions have shown positive results in whiteleg shrimp against EMS.

Would high fishmeal and fish oil prices allow for faster scale-up of novel ingredients?

Full Circle Biotechnology is the first insect producer to combine solid-fermentation with BSF production reaching 10 times higher yield and lower costs than BSF meal.

Feed formulators have many alternatives to fishmeal and fish oil, but they are not without challenges.

The cancellation of the first Peruvian anchovy season and the current high prices of fishmeal and fish oil brought new challenges to the aquafeed industry. In this context, what are the alternatives?

Single-cell producer Unibio is one of the registrants of the challenge with a combined product of Unibio’s Uniprotein® and a functional palatant from Lucta.

Single-cell protein producer KnipBio is one of the registrants for the challenge with a functional single-cell protein based on Methylobacterium extorquens.