ISSUE FOCUS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE August 2024 41 ROBUST: DATA AND ANALYTICS Global Salmon Initiative reported annually mortality as one of the sustainability indicators. The industry is also accelerating the adoption of new technologies focusing on fish welfare. For example, technologies available to monitor live fish in cages and quantify the level of some biological indicators, such as skin wounds. At the same time, there is increased focus on the environmental footprint, and the importance of measuring, knowing and reducing your own footprint. In recent years, many salmon companies have made public commitments towards decarbonization and have signed up to science-based targets (SBTi) to reduce GHG emissions by 2030 in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Sustell™ is a robust, user-friendly, secure, cloud-based intelligent platform for data input, calculation & visualization of aquaculture environmental footprints results. It measures the full LCA of the animal protein production and has modules available today for salmon, marine fish and coming soon, shrimp. GLOBAL THREAT: ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE The World Health Organization cites Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) as an increasingly serious threat to global public health, and implementation of coordinated action plans across all levels of society is vital. Antibiotic use in animal protein production is recognized as one of the drivers in AMR and a risk factor to human and environmental health (FAO, 2019). If no action is taken, AMR could lead to 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 (WHO, 2019). The aquaculture sector has developed rapidly over the past decades, and within the sustainability dialogue the reduced use of antibiotics is a key development focus. The Norwegian salmon industry, which in 2023 produced 1.4M tons of salmon, has almost eliminated the use of antibiotics in the last two decades. However, in other aquaculture species, where there has been less success of vaccines and biosecurity measures for specific diseases, the use of antibiotics is still a necessity. INTERVENTION: NUTRITION TO IMPROVE FOOTPRINT dsm-firmenich plays a key role in providing solutions for animal production that deliver optimum health and welfare and mitigate the risk of AMR.
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