Acronym Millennial Salmon
Category
Aquaculture
Title Microalgae and insect meal for sustainable feed Programme National Programme
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 Coordinator Aikaterina Kousoulaki Coordinator email katerina.kousoulaki@nofima.no
Coordinator institution
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Auchan (France) ,
NA - Corbion (Netherlands) ,
NA - Innovafeed (France) ,
NA - Labeyrie (France) ,
NA - MOWI ASA (Norway) ,
NA - SINTEF Ocean (Norway) ,
Start year 2021 End year 2024 Funding (€) € 1,200,000 Website https://nofima.com/projects/millennial-salmon/ Summary Millennial Salmon is a strategic partnership among world leading European organisations along the value chain of the salmon farming industry, including R&D (Nofima & Sintef Ocean-Norway), feed (EWOS Cargill-Norway) and raw material (Innovafeed-France & Corbion-The Netherlands) producers and a retailer (Auchan-France), with the aim to create a knowledge based sustainable salmon product that answers to modern Millennial principles of life, considering technoeconomic, animal welfare, environmental and societal aspects as a whole. The Black soldier fly meal producer Innovafeed and heterotrophic microalgae biomass producer Corbion operate with minimum land and resource use compared to competing alternatives which is critical for the project as Millennial salmon focus on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies to provide a comprehensive figure on climate impact of the new technologies, setting the stage for a Millennial generation salmon in the markets. The project concept is based on utilising efficient technologies such as fermentation and circular economy transformation of industrial side stream biomasses into microalgae and insects for a sustainable production of low trophic species as ingredients for aquafeed. Combining DHA-rich Schizochytrium limacinum biomass and Black Soldier Fly Insect meal enables satisfying large parts of the nutritional requirements of salmon in long chain ?3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and high quality proteins, allowing for sustainable future growth in the salmon farming industry without the need of further deforestation or compromising wild fish biodiversity. The project works will focus on optimally maximising dietary inclusion of heterotrophic microalgae and insect meal substituting large part of fish oil and soy without negative effects in salmon health, welfare and performance or in the physical feed properties, as well as to demonstrate the environmental and societal aspects of the suggested innovations.
Keywords
Technology;
Feed composition;
Waste valorization;
Feed quality;
Salmon;
Market;
Fish;
Marine Region
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