Norway: Could increasing copepod production reduce aquaculture's dependence on soybeans?

A team of researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology is developing the basis for a sustainable copepod industry for aquaculture, and above all for the industry's flagship salmon farming. The AgroXXI.ru portal has read an article by Guro Kulseth Merakeros, published by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, about the emerging new fish feed industry in aquaculture. In the sea, fish feed on species lower in the food chain. Could these same species form the basis of a new feed industry supplying the fish farming sector? “This is quite real. Such an industry would reduce the need to import soybeans,” says Ingrid Ellingsen, a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (SINTEF). Such an industry will reduce the need for soybean imports. Let's make a simple comparison. In the wild, animals either eat grass and other plants or hunt smaller animals. Farmers, on the other hand, feed their pets food that is first harvested and then ...