ALTERNATIVE INGREDIENTS
New insect-derived ingredient can drive performance and boost health in shrimp aquaculture systems Andrew Richardson, Maye Walraven, Innovafeed
With its average global year-on-year growth between 5-10%, the shrimp industry, based mostly in Southeast Asia and Ecuador, has shown tremendous growth over the past decade. It has also shown its resilience throughout the recent pandemic with production remaining stable. As the world’s population climbs towards 8 billion, our food production systems are faced with the challenge of producing more output, with less input. Animal feed is no different. Its production is compounded by competition between various animal feed industries for common feed ingredients. This strong growth and competition are putting pressure on the availability of conventional ingredients which rely on the limited supply of non-renewable natural resources. In this context, pushing production systems to be more efficient and shifting towards a circular production model will be the hallmarks of sustainable growth in shrimp aquaculture. In this article, we describe how InnovaFeed is exploiting the intrinsic benefits of insects to drive an increase in both growth performance and health resistance in shrimp with a new highperformance feed ingredient, NovaGainTM, specially designed for shrimp feed.
Novel performance ingredient to boost shrimp production The insect farming industry is a rapidly growing segment of the animal feed industry. It seeks to upcycle lowvalue co-products of the agro-industry, converting them into high-value animal protein and oil sources for
Figure 1. Improved growth performance was demonstrated when NovaGainTM was added to the diets, regardless of the inclusion level tested. FCR was significantly higher in the control diet than in the 7.5% and 10.5% NovaGainTM diets. SGR of shrimp fed treatment diets significantly improved with increasing dietary inclusion, an increase of up to 25.29% compared to shrimp fed the control diet.
Aquafeed: Advances in Processing & Formulation Vol 14 Issue 1 2022
