Acronym Novofeed
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Novel feed ingredients from sustainable sources Programme International Cooperation
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator Fiona Provan Coordinator email Fiona.Provan@iris.no
Coordinator institution
IRIS - International Research Institute of Stavanger (Norway)
Institutions involved
UGent - Ghent University (Belgium) ,
NA - Holar University College (Iceland) ,
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway) ,
NA - Nutrimar AS (Norway) ,
UNIBO - University of Bologna (Italy) ,
Start year 2017 End year 2019 Funding (€) € 1,421,000 Website www.marinebiotech.eu/novofeed Summary The European aquaculture industry holds great promise as a provider of nutrient rich food to an increasing population. T o ensure a sustainable and continued growth of the production, there is a need for an increased focus directed to wards the development of effective approaches to prevent and control diseases in aquaculture species. One possibility is to develop functional feed ingredients that provide specific benefits to the fish. Such ingredients may be biologically active compound s, recovered from seafood processing by - products. This project aims to develop novel functional feed ingredients for the aquaculture industry through facilitating the recovery and utilization of valuable bioactive peptides from the salmon industry in Norwa y and the sea bass/sea bream industry in Italy. State of the art techniques within peptidomics and bioinformatics (often referred to as the in silico approach) will be used to identify peptides with predicted anti - inflammatory, immunostimulatory or anti - mi crobial properties in the different fractions of by - products. Based on the results, targeted hydrolysis and processing of the by - products will be performed to obtain fractions enriched in the relevant bioactive peptides. Assessments will be made of the deg ree of purification and up - concentration required before inclusion of these fractions in the feed formulations. The efficacy of the compounds as health promoting and disease - preventing ingredients will be assessed through in vitro studies and in vivo fish feed trials
Keywords
Feed quality;
Seafood;
Fish health;
Seabream;
Bioactive compounds;
Feed composition;
Byproducts;
Seabass;
Salmon;
Diets;
Fish;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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