Flatfish Feed Additive Enters Verification Testing in Jeju

The National Institute of Fisheries Science recently announced that it has developed a low-fish meal feed for flatfish with fish meal content reduced to half the existing level and began its final on-site verification test in Jeju in May. The newly developed low-fish meal feed uses alternative raw materials such as fish oil processing by-products, poultry by-products, and wheat gluten to lower the fish meal content in the feed from 70% to 35%. Typically, fish meal, the key ingredient in flatfish feed, is mostly processed from small fish and is traded at a high price of about 2,000 won per kg. Over 90% of the total usage is dependent on imports, and the decrease in catch due to climate change and rising water temperatures has been a major cause of fish meal price increases and feed price hikes. The Fisheries Science Institute's Feed Research Center has been conducting the 'Low-Fish Meal Feed Development and Raw Material Utilization Improvement Research' since 2016 with the goal of ...