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Dr Neil Auchterlonie AquaFarm, Italy
ne of the great pleasures of working for The Marine Ingredients Organisation (IFFO) is the opportunity it presents to be able to communicate some of the realities of fishmeal and fish oil as feed ingredients and the reasons why these are not in reality replaceable as ingredients. There is so much confusion, or sometimes even deliberate misinformation, on the use of these materials in aquafeed that any opportunity to provide clarity or redress the balance in the public domain is one that we at IFFO always take up with enthusiasm. Recently, I was honoured to speak at the AquaFarm 2019 Conference in Pordenone. The AquaFarm conference has an interesting audience that comprises of largely Mediterranean aquaculture industry, support industry and academics. It is a practical information exchange platform where topics of specific interest and importance to the industry are highlighted. The presentation was within a session on fish feed and fish quality, described as “new formulations, ingredients, additives and integrators, and the circular economy”. The session was very ably moderated by Rebecca Sherratt, the Production Editor from International Aquafeed, and contained a round table of: Robert Tillner (Production Manager, Aller Aqua), Fabio Brambilla, (Fish Nutritionist, Naturalleva), Umberto Luzzana (Marketing Director, Skretting), and Andrea di Biase (Product Manager Aqua, Veronesi). Following the presentation, the round table fielded a series of questions about future potential feed ingredients, and although it was at the end of the day there was a lot of interest and energy in the room that reflected well on the importance of the session topic. The content of the presentation wasn’t markedly different from previous presentations I have given on the use of fishmeal and fish oil in aquafeed. Marine ingredients are equally as important for the farmed sea bass and sea bream that dominate Mediterranean aquaculture as they are in the salmon, shrimp, trout, catfish and other industries. The messages are largely the same that fishmeal and fish oil are effective means of supplying the required nutrition in aquafeeds, both from nutritional and economic perspectives. There was general appreciation in the session that they will continue to be included in aquafeeds, but more of the novel ingredients will become important in supporting the real volume of aquafeed growth that will be required in the future, in turn supporting aquaculture development. Of course, a lot of the novel ingredients are capturing media headlines, but the fact is that many of them have a long way to go to reach commercial volumes although that is much needed at this time. A feed company representative I sat next to at a recent workshop put it succinctly: fishmeal inclusion has been reduced to close to threshold levels (in salmon feed) and the growth in the novel ingredients is required to replace some of the vegetable protein in the feed in order to facilitate growth in feed volume. It was great to experience so much interest in feed formulations and optimising the nutritional benefits, in relation to fish growth, quality and health at the conference. It seems that maybe the rise of some of the novel ingredients may actually be driving a general interest in aquafeed formulations, which is good to see. Dr Neil Auchterlonie is the Technical Director at IFFO. He has managed aquaculture and fisheries science programmes in both public and private sectors. Academically he holds a BSc in Marine and Freshwater Biology from Stirling University, a MSc in Applied Fish Biology from the University of Plymouth, and a PhD in Aquaculture (halibut physiology) from Stirling University. 10 | April 2019 - International Aquafeed
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n election of World Aquaculture Society Officers, Directors, and Bylaws changes for the year 2019-2020 was held during December 19, 2018 to February 3rd, 2019. However, due to electronic voting irregularities, the Board of Directors decided to void the result and ask the membership to re-vote after fixing the Internet voting system. The WAS Election Committee is now asking the membership to cast your vote again. Please, note that this is the same ballot approved previously by the Board of Directors. It contains the same candidates for President-Elect, Treasurer, and Directors, as well as the same proposals to Bylaws changes. One change to the voting system is that member ID can no longer be used as passwords. Members that had not changed their passwords were recently sent new passwords. If you had previously changed your password, that password is still valid and should be used. To prevent multiple voting, only ballots with correct member IDs will be counted. When ballots are received at the Home Office the member ID will be checked against a list of IDs (no member names) in order to ensure an anonymous vote and to eliminate repeat voting. Note that proxy vote is not allowed. Please use thefollowing link to vote: www.was.org/Ballot Users can alternatively email judya@was.org if they require a pdf version or you can print from the link above and return by post to ‘WAS Elections Committee 20182019, WAS Home Office, PO Box 397, Sorrento LA 707780397 (USA)’ Ballots must be received in the Home Office by May 29, 2019 either by online vote or by mail, fax, or email. Ballots received after this date will not be counted.