INTERVIEW FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE August 2023 45 can help to provide budgets for new FIPs helping to improve fishery management and practices more broadly. Over the last 20 years, we have gradually reduced our use of marine ingredients for the average global salmon feed composition by nearly 80%. In addition, we are constantly looking for new and innovative ingredients that can be used in fish and shrimp feeds. We have recently introduced a range of novel ingredients, such as insect protein, algae, and single-cell proteins. These ingredients provide a sustainable alternative to traditional protein sources, reducing the reliance on marine ingredients. Insect protein is an exciting development in sustainable fish feed production and has become an alternative to other sources of protein at all levels, including nutrition, production, and sustainability. Insects are rich in protein and can be produced using a fraction of the land, water, and resources required for traditional livestock production. In collaboration with Innovafeed we are finding new ways to reuse by-products and develop fish nutrition that promotes and enhances the health of farmed fish. Leveraging Innovafeed’s high-quality insect meal in aquafeed saves up to 16,000 tons of CO2 for every 10,000 tons of insect protein. We have also begun to include algal oil into all Norwegian fish feed, further helping to reduce fish farmers’ dependence on fish oil in aquaculture production. Among the range of alternative ingredients for aquaculture, algae oil is one of the few that can replace fishmeal and oil without sacrificing omega-3 levels – a critical component of seafood’s health messaging to consumers, as well as essential for the health of the fish themselves. We are in programs devoted to responsible sourcing of soy and engage in several aquaculture best practice standards – such as Global GAP, BAP (Best Aquaculture Practice) and ASC (Aquaculture Stewardship Council) – to ensure we protect the environment whilst we continue to deliver sound nutrition to the fish. What feeding solutions does Cargill support the aquaculture industry with? What are Cargill's differences and promises in this area? Cargill Aqua Nutrition offers a plethora of feeding solutions depending on species, geography, lifecycle stage and customer and consumer requirements. We focus our capabilities on Nutrition, Sustainability and Fish Health to deliver a holistic approach to welfare through feed and feeding solutions. With the increased focus on digitization, we will refine our portfolio to offer precision nutrition that more accurately meets the need of the animal being cultured whilst understanding and predicting the environment, working practices and market so that we can improve productivity whilst protecting the environment. We will continue to work on sourcing new raw materials that reduce the reliance on marine proteins and oils and build more programs to increase the sustainability of those marine ingredients that we continue to purchase, we will leverage our signature sustainability program – SeaFurtherTM – to support customers in reducing the carbon footprint, and we will create products and services that support fish
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