Project
Stimulation of circular aquaculture: a novel method to evaluate energy of feed ingredients
Aquaculture has an important role in future food systems to supply fish, which is part of a healthy human diet. Though aquaculture has the potential to upgrade organic by-products, residual flows and novel ingredients, the development of a proper energy evaluation system is a necessity to use these type of ingredients and make the transition from linear to circular food production.
This project, in which the aquaculture feed chain is represented by the consortium (ingredient suppliers, aqua-feed-producers and farmers), will develop a novel, up-to date energy evaluation system of feed ingredients for relevant fish species. This novel energy evaluation systems enables the transition from linear to circular food systems by increasing the (re-)use of organic by-products, residual flows and novel ingredients in aqua-feeds and thereby reducing the feed food competition.