Feed – News
Cleaner feed spells good news for CONSUMERS
OIL CHANGE FOR MARINE HARVEST SALMON
process that removes environmental pollutants, and should make the com- pany’s fish even healthier for the end consumer. This sort of cleaning is not currently
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being carried out in the production of salmon feed and will be a differentiator for Marine Harvest. ‘This is a major step in the strategy of
Marine Harvest becoming a fully inte- grated protein producer, able to follow and control all ingredients from our fish feed to the consumer’s plate’, said Alf- Helge Aarskog, CEO of Marine Harvest. ‘We want to use our position to
arine Harvest has entered into an agreement with FF Skagen to clean all fish oil used in its salmon feeds – a
ensure top quality and confidence in the product all the way. From time to time the discussion of how many salmon meals the consumer should and could eat pops up in media. ‘We recognize that such debates can
confuse the consumer. Our aim with the cleaning of fish oil is to remove all doubts regarding salmon intake. The result is that Marine Harvest salmon becomes even healthier.’ Commenting on the agreement, CEO
of FF Skagen, Johannes Palsson said: ‘We at FF Skagen are proud to be a part of securing even healthier salmon than before, as we enter in to agree- ment with Marine Harvest to deliver cleaned fish oils to their new produc- tion of fish feed.’ FF
More refined fish oil: destined for MH feed A six-legged solution to feed T
HE University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture is currently seeking
an enthusiastic researcher to co-ordinate a feed- related project in Ghana for the next two years. Dubbed PROTEINsect, the initiative looks at using insects to trans- form agricultural waste into products valuable for both fish and crop production. As Ghana rapidly ex-
pands and fish production intensifies, the require- ment for quality feeds is also growing. However, it is known that insect larvae can substitute for high quality imported feed ingredients (such as fish- meal and soybean meal) that constitute a major proportion of total costs, while the leftover biomass can be used as bio-fertilis-
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er instead of conventional fertilisers.
THE FLY GUY The Institute of Aquacul-
ture is implementing trials with local and internation- al partners that will build on Chinese experience in the production and use of maggots and by-products to support commercial
development in Ghana. The project is piloting two insect production systems co-located with strategic waste-streams and potential end-us- ers for their technical, environmental, economic and social performance/ acceptability. Waste substrates and co-prod- ucts will be screened for
potential contaminants and their nutrient profiles. Potential for commercial use of the co-products by female smallholder vegetable producers and commercial enterprises for juvenile fish produc- tion will also be evalu- ated. Public, occupational health and environmental impacts will be assessed using a range of tools in- cluding Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). The successful applicant
Insects: could be central to the future of feed
will need good com- munication and manage- ment skills, be flexible and practical in working in challenging conditions, and ideally already have experience in sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. The suc- cessful candidate – who would be expected to spend extended periods in Ghana conducting research over first two
project years (near the capital Accra) – would have the opportunity to register for a PhD at the University of Stirling. For further informa-
tion contact Dr Francis Murray (
fjm3@stir.ac.uk) or Will Leschen (william.
leschen@stir.ac.uk). FF
The project looks at
using insects to transform agricultural waste products into feed
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