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An organic aquaculturist from Sipalay City (Philippines) said fish feed with natural or organic food actually looks, smells and tastes better than fish supplied with synthetic feeds. Francisco Britanico, who has a 45-hectare fish farm in Barangay Nabulao, has been practising organic fish growing for four years now. He grows milkfish, black tiger prawns, white Pacific shrimps, mudcrab and tilapia using organic fertilizers. “When I was into chemical feeding,...
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Last week at their spring meeting in Montreal, Canada, the Fats and Proteins Research Foundation, Inc. (FPRF) enhanced their international program aimed to support research on the use of animal by-products in aquaculture feeds. “The latest $112,000 in grants builds on ongoing work in order to understand the potential role of attractants and palatability factors in animal byproducts, and to forge connections between the genetic potential for growth in aquatic species and nutrient...
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Neptune Industries, Inc. headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida announced today that its executive officers attended the USDA's Alternative Feeds Initiative in Silver Springs, Maryland yesterday to discuss the results of the second stage of the Company's research on Ento-Protein(TM). Ento-Protein(TM) is a high quality, sustainable protein derived from the controlled mass production of select insects. The feasibility, taste acceptance, and growth analyses on fish fed Ento-Protein(TM) based...
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Farmed cod larvae are dependent on feeding on live zooplankton, like rotifers. However, analyses have shown that rotifers contain low amounts of selenium and other minerals. New methods will now be explored in order to add selenium to rotifers in order to provide the cod with sufficient quantities. Mortality and developmental deformities during the larval stage are bottlenecks in cod farming. In the wild the cod larvae feed on copepods and in intensive farming they need to feed on...
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PRICHEMIN MIX
Priya's PRICHEMIN MIX is a mineral supplement for aquaculture. It consists of a mix of mineral chelats from aminoacids
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Neptune Industries has branded new US guidelines excluding wild fish from the production of organic seafood as an "important step forward" in its efforts to obtain an "organic" label for its Ento-Protein brand. In its recommendations, the US Department of Agriculture said fishmeal and fish oil produced from wild fish and other wild aquatic animals "cannot be used in organic production of aquatic animals, or certified or labeled as...
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Neptune Industries, Inc. today announced what the company called "extremely positive" preliminary results from stage three trials of Ento-Protein™ now under way at Mississippi State University. Ento-Protein™ is a high quality sustainable protein derived from insects, which is intended to be a replacement for the rapidly depleting fishmeal made from wild caught feedstock species, for which there is currently a $7 billion worldwide market. The trials are being run at Mississippi...
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A new customised dry feed for sea urchins has generated international attention. Scientists at Nofima are now working on reducing production costs and adapting the recipe for large-scale production. Many of the world's wild sea urchin stocks are over fished and poorer access to sea urchin roe on the market has led to increased interest in farming. Innovative Norwegian companies are among those that have started farming sea urchins. Scientists at Nofima (formerly...
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Feed transformation into biomass gain it’s a process that starts in the digestive system of the animal. As such, its health status and its functionality correlate directly with the economic results of the farmer. From mammalian research it is...
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PRICHEMIN MIX
Priya's PRICHEMIN MIX is a mineral supplement for aquaculture. It consists of a mix of mineral chelats from aminoacids
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How reliant are fish on seeing what they eat? Unlike other fry, cod fry grows quicker when it is fed in the dark, new research findings from Nofima show. It is normal for fish farmers to feed fry in light conditions, as studies of a host of species, including salmon, has shown fry grow best when they receive a lot of light. Studies have also shown cod larva is reliant on light to eat and grow. However, no studies have been carried out on whether the same effect could be shown on...
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Aquaculture feeds characteristically contain a higher percent of protein than feeds used in agriculture for poultry, swine, and beef. A typical commercial production diet formulated for tilapia or catfish contains approximately 32-40% protein, while one formulated for trout or salmon contains as much as 44-50% protein, on a dry weight basis. A commercial grower diet formulated for most terrestrial animals rarely exceeds 20% in total protein, and even for carnivorous species such as cats, the...
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Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc., a biotechnology company focused on enhancing productivity in the aquaculture market, announces that it has signed a Term sheet with Stirling Products North America Inc. for an exclusive option to distribute ProValeTM in the Chilean salmon market. ProValeTM is an environmentally friendly and highly bioactive form of the currently marketed beta glucan product for immune stimulation and disease management in fish. Under the terms of the agreement, Aqua...
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For many years water quality has been the most important limitation to fish production. Advances in life support technology have been substantial in recent years, and nutrition is increasingly regarded a key limitation to increased production efficiency as well as the growth and propagation of "new" species. Commercially prepared diets for channel catfish and salmonids have been developed using a great deal of research data on specific nutritional requirements of these species,...
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PRICHEMIN MIX
Priya's PRICHEMIN MIX is a mineral supplement for aquaculture. It consists of a mix of mineral chelats from aminoacids
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Dietary nutrient-density refers to the amount or proportion of a particular nutrient in relation to the total amount of nutrients contained in the diet. Commonly, a nutrient-dense diet refers to being rich in protein and energy, and the amount of the specific nutrient is represented in proportion to the total energy content of the diet. A simple, nutrient-dense diet can be rich in vitamins and minerals and have a low content of fat and relatively few calories (e.g., many fruits and vegetables...
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Bugs are just pests for most people, but a group of Mississippi State University scientists is working to make insects an important crop. Frank Davis, emeritus adjunct professor of entomology, received a phone call in early 2007 from a Florida-based company’s president with an interest in mass-producing insects. “His interest was in mass-producing insects as a sustainable protein source to replace fish meal in fish and livestock feeds,” Davis said. The call brought...
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The risk of transmitting bovine spongiform encephalopathy to animals and humans from feeding cattle blood products to farmed fish is inconclusive. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concludes that there are insufficient data to quantify the degree of BSE risk following the use of bovine dried blood products as an ingredient for feeds for farmed fish. EFSA's scientific panel on biological hazards said that there was only a small chance of fish themselves developing BSE...
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The U.S. Grains Council is partnering with the Idaho Barley Commission to begin low-phytate barley aquaculture feeding trials in Vietnam. Approximately 21 metric tons of low-phytate barley was shipped out of Tetonia, Idaho earlier this month destined for Vietnam where it will be field tested. The barley was donated by the Idaho Barley Commission and the Council arranged for payment of ocean freight. Kelly Olson, Idaho Barley Commission administrator, said the low-phytate barley will be studied...
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PRICHEMIN MIX
Priya's PRICHEMIN MIX is a mineral supplement for aquaculture. It consists of a mix of mineral chelats from aminoacids
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Many hours patiently training cod produces results. Scientist Frank Kristiansen has taught wild-caught cod that dry feed is good food - and these cod have doubled their weight in three months. It is currently difficult to receive continual supply of cod because of seasonal fluctuations in the fisheries. However, by taking fish ashore and feeding them like other farmed fish, it is possible to offer consumers cod year-round. Fussy cod However,...
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The popular Fat Tire Amber Ale has been heralded for its "toasty malty" flavor. But the New Belgium Brewing Co. beer has another characteristic: It's a key ingredient in an environmentally friendly form of fish food. Three Colorado entrepreneurs are wagering hundreds of thousands of dollars to convert the wastewater from New Belgium's brewing operations into a high-protein ingredient to feed farm-raised fish. The trio and their Idaho Springs startup hope to usher in...
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Neptune Industries, Inc., a next generation aquaculture technology company with diversified interests in production system technology, food science, sustainable seafood, waste-to-energy production, and related natural and organic food products, announced today that Phase II trials on the Company's Ento-Protein(TM) research has been successfully completed. The completion of Phase II trials represents the pivotal milestone in developing a viable dietary protein alternative in the $7...
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The ethanol industry could spawn another ag industry in the Midwest. That new industry is shrimp farming. “The opportunity is huge,” says Hank Harris, Iowa State University animal science professor. Cheryl Shew, global shrimp sales specialist for Zeigler Brothers a feed company in Gardners, Pa., says people are raising shrimp indoors in Michigan, Indiana and up-state New York. Harris, who’s specialty at ISU has been pork diseases, conducted shrimp research...
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