ARTICLE FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE November 2024 67 lowers not only costs but also environmental impact, as less nitrogen is excreted into the environment. The Essential Nitrogen concept aims to maximize every nutrient input for the fish’s growth and health. Additionally, by enhancing nitrogen retention/ utilization, we reduce the ecological footprint of aquaculture operations, supporting sustainability objectives. This approach ensures that nutrients are effectively used by the fish, working towards zero nutrient waste and contributing to cleaner and healthier aquatic ecosystems. EFFECTIVE ENERGY: A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK Building on the success of Essential Nitrogen, we are introducing the second phase: Effective Energy. This phase integrates the Essential Nitrogen concept into a comprehensive framework that combines tank data, commercial data, and formulation data. By leveraging our collective knowledge and learning from our knowledge across different species, we are able to refine our approach, ensuring even greater precision and efficiency in our formulations. The result is a model capable of generating customized nutritional plans for a multitude of different farming sites and stocking conditions. Effective Energy builds on the insights gained from tank trials conducted in the Essential Nitrogen phase. While these trials provided the understanding of the nutritional physiology foundations and how the new nutrients (i.e., Essential Nitrogen) are expected to be utilized by fish, they did not fully represent the diverse conditions of commercial farming. Effective Energy overcomes this by incorporating real-world commercial data, allowing us to fine-tune our nutritional physiology engine to tailor to specific farming locations, stocking seasons, life stages, and economic constraints such as raw material prices. Our integrated scenario planning tools enable us to simulate various farming scenarios and customize nutritional plans to support greater efficiency and sustainability. This holistic approach means that customers will benefit from nutritional plans tailored to their unique conditions. Whether it's the geographical location of a farm, the specific size of the fish, or the economic context, our solution adjusts to deliver performance outcomes. This level of customization ensures that our feeds not only support fish growth and health but are also capable of enhancing the overall sustainability and profitability of salmon farming operations. FROM CONCEPT TO COMMERCIAL TRIALS: ENSURING PRACTICAL APPLICATION We have conducted phase one deployments to validate our concepts, moving from tank trials to sea (commercial trials), ensuring that our innovations are practical and effective in real-world conditions. PRECISION FEED FORMULATION THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK By supporting greater nitrogen utilization and integrating it into a comprehensive framework, we are offering a capability that allows us to improve nutrient efficiency, performance, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability based on customer objectives. Additionally, we continue to build fully integrated scenario planning and decision-making tools, continuously improved and adapted to ever-changing circumstances, ensuring that our innovations are both practical and effective. These innovations highlight our commitment to supporting the aquaculture industry with advanced nutritional solutions that drive performance and sustainability.
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