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Europe's Bioeconomy: The Business of Nature

EUobserver's 2018 Business in Europe magazine takes a closer look at Europe's bioeconomy and how "the business of nature" is changing the way people look at waste and natural resources.

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Photo: IBioIC<br />

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exploited or depleted there is a heavy price to pay<br />

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headaches too, including sea lice, which are hitting<br />

production and threatening the industry's 'clean'<br />

image).<br />

Fish oil prices are also extremely volatile, hitting<br />

a peak <strong>of</strong> $2,500 per tonne a couple <strong>of</strong> years<br />

ago and forcing many feed manufacturers to look<br />

even harder for alternatives. Grains and oilseeds,<br />

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increasingly added to mixtures in the past couple<br />

<strong>of</strong> decades.<br />

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percent <strong>of</strong> salmon feed in 1990 and vegetal raw<br />

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to nine percent whilst the plant-based portion had<br />

15 — BUSINESS IN EUROPE MAGAZINE 2018

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