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Recent trials show large potential for nutritionally improved feather meal in shrimp feeds Mélanie Guédon, Akiolis
Figure 1. New generation of feather meal.
Easily available on the market, being part of a sustainable production chain, and more economic than fishmeal, does feather meal have potential in shrimp farming? Still little used, it offers potential as an alternative to fishmeal. Akiolis, a French producer of ingredients based on poultry byproducts, has explored the use of this raw material in a series of trials, confirming that
feather meal can effectively replace a large part of fishmeal in shrimp feeds. Fishmeal is becoming scarce and the search for alternative proteins has already been at the heart of development projects of the aquaculture industry for several years. Among the raw materials allowing a supply of quality proteins to replace fishmeal, poultry meal has a proven track record. But this is
Aquafeed: Advances in Processing & Formulation Vol 13 Issue 2 2021
