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Keywords Sustainable aquaculture, Fish feed, Local raw materials Abstract The Nordic countries are known for clean environment, efficient technology and high quality products, not least food products. The countries have a long history in fisheries and agriculture and aquaculture has been increasing in recent decades, especially the salmon production in Norway reaching a million tons annual production and the rainbow trout production in Denmark utilizing environmentally friendly recirculation technology. The Nordic aquaculture business has a huge potential to increase further, the global market demand for high quality environmentally beneficent products are increasing rapidly and the Nordic countries have the resources, know-how and image to respond to this with increased production. Access to safe, available and economical feed ingredients is becoming one of the most important challenges for strengthening the aquaculture industry and developing a more sustainable production. The major challenges for the industry are to reduce feed cost and environmental footprints without reducing product quality and value. In this project some realistic future possibilities for production of new local fish feed ingredients are put forward and a Nordic network has been established including the whole value chain from producers of fish feed raw material, through fish feed manufacturing and aquaculture to marketing of fish from Nordic aquaculture. Moreover, the main players in each country have been identified and are listed in the report. 3
Executive summary The availability and price of fossil fuels for the transport sector could become a problem in the near future and that would affect the food security in the world. Moreover, it is expected that the global need for food will increase substantially in the coming decades. Surely aquaculture will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality proteins to the market. It is therefore of concern that aquaculture has mainly been growing in Asia and Central-America in recent years, but less in Europe although the Norwegian production of salmon has increased substantially. Europe only counts for approximately 2% of the total world aquaculture production and thus new solutions are needed. The Nordic countries have huge possibilities in becoming a leading region in sustainable aquaculture with the local resources, know-how and clean image. The aquaculture industry is the fastest growing food production industry in the world and approximately 50% of all fish consumed by humans is from aquaculture. The main cost factor in aquaculture is the cost of feed. Furthermore, high amounts of feed ingredients from marine sources have been of concern both environmentally and economically. Thus, it is of importance for the aquaculture industry to aim for the development of new locally-produced, cost-effective, beneficent and eco-friendly ingredients for innovative practical feed production. This report gives an overview about the status in the Nordic aquaculture industries, with focus on feed production and related businesses. Suggestions are put forward for an increased and more sustainable Nordic aquaculture in the future with focus on local environmentally friendly feed production and new species. Furthermore, information is listed about relevant players in the aquaculture value chain in each country. These are industry associations, R&D organizations, aquaculture companies, feed producers and raw material producers. The aim is to find innovative solutions for a competitive and sustainable Nordic aquaculture focusing on local feed raw materials. Ideas are put forward on utilization of seaweed and algae, production of rapeseed and barley and high quality proteins from mussel meal, fungi, single cells or invertebrates. In some cases waste organic material from horticulture, green houses and other agriculture products could be utilized or even remnants from one fish species as feed raw material for another species. Moreover, the production could be beneficial for the environment as in the case of production of mussel meal, seaweed and algae, with utilization of excess nutrients / contaminants in the environment for the production of valuable raw materials. In spite of good knowledge on feed for aquaculture there is still a need for research in the area, especially on sustainability, economical solutions regarding new technology, new species and new local feed raw materials. In this respect long-term effects on changes in the diet for different species need to be clarified. The carbon footprint of the production is also of increased concern as the aquaculture business is often accused for being unsustainable and impacting the environment negatively. Food production, not least in the marine sector and aquaculture, is one of the main fundamental industries in the Nordic countries. Wild fisheries have stagnated or even declined and the aquaculture in other continents has been increasing substantially. It is therefore essential for these industries to implement innovative solutions to maintain the competitiveness of the region in this field. New opportunities for sustainable aquaculture production are emerging providing the tools. 4
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