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What’s on Tomorrow’s Menu?A Brief Introduction to Some Potential
Fish Feed Materials
Paul Morris
Business Development Manager, Skretting
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Availability of fishmeal and fish oil in perspective
Garlic is 3 times more abundant than fishmeal
Krill – Exceeds emotional baggage limit• Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) - Shrimp-like crustaceans that swarm in dense shoals
• CompositionProtein = approx 60% with digestibility of 80-90%Crude fat variable – 8 to 30% of which 35% is LC n-3 PUFA (EPA > DHA)Krill products have high astaxanthin content (meal ± 100 mg/kg; oil ± 700 mg/kg)
• EU MPL fluorine in krill meal = 3000 mg/kg.EU MPL fluorine in fish feed = 350mg/kg assuming sole source of fluorine in feed was krill at its MPL, maximum inclusion = ± 12% (in reality, potential inclusion is less because fishmeal contributes a significant amount of F)
• Biomass estimates for this species are highly variable (125-725 million tonnes) though total harvest estimated to be 100-200k tonnes p.a.
• The Aker BioMarine component of the fishery certified as sustainable by MSC in June 2010
• Aker harvests krill using a continuous mid-water/pelagic trawl system. This system is guarded by a fine mesh which prevents anything larger than krill from entering the system and is monitored by underwater cameras.
• Product from the Aker Biomarine Antarctic krill fishery is sold predominantly in the US and European markets. Products include Superba oil (food) and Qril meal for aquaculture .
• Even with MSC certification, due to its position as a low trophic level species and origin in the Southern Ocean, Krill remains an emotive subject little / no adoption in UK fish feeds
Cultured alga production dominated by red and brown
seaweeds produced in Asia
Production of cultured algae in 2008
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Total = 15.7 million tonnes wet weight
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Eucheuma seaweeds, Eucheuma spp
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Zanzibar weed, Eucheuma cottonii
Warty gracilaria, Gracilaria verrucosa
Nori, Porphyra spp
Laver (Nori), Porphyra tenera
Gracilaria seaweeds, Gracilaria spp
Elkhorn sea moss, Kappaphycus alvarezii
Spiny eucheuma, Eucheuma denticulatum
Fusiform sargassum, Sargassum fusiforme
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Source: FAO Fishery Statistical Collection
Proximate composition of common fish feed materials on dry matter basis
ranked according to crude protein content - Note high levels of “space
consuming” ash in seaweeds
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Cost and value of existing algal products
• With exception of Spirulina, algal / seaweed meals generally have protein contents that only enable them to compete with low / medium level (“2nd division”) protein sources such as sunflower and DDGS and / or fillers like wheat / wheat feed very limited monetary VALUE as feed materials alone
• Algal products would need to be price competitive with vegetable proteins if viewed as sources of protein and fat and high levels of ash consume excess “space” at the lower end of the scale
• Algal products have to have value as sources of micronutrients and / or value added “factors” in order to find a niche in salmonid feeds
• However, on weighted average basis, even with pigment included, the proportion of formula cost attributed to additives (vitamins, minerals and carotenoids) is < 10% of formula cost accounting for < 3% of formula space
• Basic algal products have to have a lot of “bonus” features / generate a lot of marketing value to justify the formulation space they consume
• 15-16 million tonnes of cultured algae is a small amount compared to existing crops incentive to harvest from the wild e.g. a recent application to harvest 20,000 tonnes of Ulva in Galway. Is this sustainable progress?
Land animal by-products (LAPS) Not even starting from the pit lane
• Blood mealHigh protein content (Hb meal > 90%)High, but potentially variable, protein digestibility (still better than many fishmeals)Rich source of histidine (ideal for cost-effective cataract prevention)Anecdotally viewed as a contributor to superior effluent quality in freshwater
• Feather mealVery high protein content (> 80%)Digestibility can be variable (lot to lot) and generally poorer than fishmeal Factors influencing digestibility are known and if composition monitored on a lot by lot basis, can be accommodated in formulation process
• Poultry mealVariable composition but generally protein in range 60 – 70%Composition and digestibility affected by degree of processing and ability to keep feathers separated from other components
• Poultry fatSum SFAs typically in line with SA fish oilsDominant monoene is 18:1n-9 (oleic acid)PUFAs dominated by n-6 fatty acids with negligible n-3 (no LC n-3)
• Before we were able to identify the “unique factors” in fishmeal, LAPs were seen to be capable of replacing more fishmeal than plant materials providing equivalent levels of digestible protein – Concepts like MicroBalance areaddressing this issue
Formulation exercise with land animal products in high specification
feeds for portion-sized rainbow trout
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Exercise carried out to determine likely inclusion level when using LAPS in
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Haemoblobin meal (HbM), feather meal (FEA) and poultry oil (PO) made
available to formula with pre- and post-MicroBalance levels of fishmeal
Poultry products – estimated UK production
• Figures for availability of poultry by-products are difficult to acquire some B&H calculations required
• According to the British Poultry Council, 16 million chickens are consumed weekly in the UK 832 million individuals p.a.
• Assuming a slaughter weight of 2.4 kg, 832 million chickens approx 2 million tonnes of whole chicken p.a.
Feathers = 10% of live weight with a 27% recovery when rendered
Offal = 25% of live weight with a recovery of 15% for meal + 15 % for oilBlood = 3% of live weight and has a recovery of 1%
• The UK alone could be producing54k tonnes feather meal75k tonnes poultry meal75k tonnes poultry oil600 tonnes poultry blood
• Hydrolysed feathers, poultry oil and poultry meal are well characterised as fish feed materials and the properties that drive their nutritional value to fish are well understood
Products and by-products from fermentation - bactreria
• Pedigree / history goes back as far as the early 1980's and ICI’s Pruteen - A dehydrated and pelleted protein concentrate obtained by fermentation of methanol by Methylophilus methylotrophus.
• Paracoccus currently used as a carotenoid supply (Panaferd) concept of bacteria added to feed not an issue
• BioProtein (Norferm / StatOil) Biomass derived from Methylococcus spp. using methane as a substrate.Protein content was approx. 74% and digestibility on a par with some fishmeals.Initially very promising results in salmon feed indication incorporation of to 30% of feed.On basis of evidence of suppressed growth (livestock and salmon) and impacts on immunity in terrestrial livestock, EU SCAN subsequently revoked marketing authorisation in 2001.Latterly, Norwegian Committee for Food Safety (2006) set a limit of 6% incorporation in salmon feeds
• Protorsan (Ajinomoto):Dehydrated bacterial cells of Cornybacterium glutamicum melassecolaContains about 70% CP and 10% crude fatProduced as a by-product of production of L-glutamic acid by fermentation using sugar-containing substrates e.g. molasses or starch hydrolysates.
• PL73 (Eurolysine)Contains the protein fraction of the bacterium Brevibacterium lactofermentum and is a by-product of L-lysine production
Products and by-products from fermentation - yeast• A large variety of by-products yeast-based fermentation are available
• Yeasts and yeast products e.g. glucan, nucleotide and carotenoid sources e.g. Phaffia are already common place materials as additives
• Yeasts typically contain 40-50% CP though its digestibility can vary between 50 and 80%
• Large amounts of yeast and / or yeast-containing products will potentially be available as a result of increased levels of ethanol production for use as bio-fuel
• Yeast content of spent substrate will be high due to cell proliferation during fermentation Relatively high protein content in DDGS Protein content of DDGS is too high to be cost effective in ruminant feeds but still
too low to be of high value in monogastric feeds
• Issues for both bacterial and yeast products relate to:Use of GM technology better yields of target product but issues for use in feed
under current non-GM restrictionsResidues of substrate material which may be GMProcess control tools e.g. antibiotics may usedProcesses optimised for target product may periodically compromise nutritional value
in feed
Marine worms – Tide and tested?
• Substantial amount of publicity generated with Nereid worms including N. diversicolor and N. virens being the species of interest
• CompositionApprox 20% dry matterProtein = approx 50% of DMTotal lipid = 15-30% depending on season and feedingLipids are “marine in nature” with predominance of EPA (20:5n-3) and profile can be influenced by feed
• Various published works indicate a high capacity to retain LC n-3 PUFAS though it is difficult to isolate what originates from feed, from the environment (e.g. production by sediment organisms and algae) and whether Nereids synthesise appreciable quantities of LC n-3 PUFAS de novo
• Little or no peer-reviewed literature to demonstrate that ragworm meal is superior to an equivalent amount of fishmeal (anecdotes suggest no better / no poorer on a per unit protein basis) or that small inclusion levels in otherwise fishmeal-free feeds have disproportionate impacts on fish performance
• As a vehicle for waste remediation in polyculture, ragworms represent a source of added value by generating feed material from waste and an opportunity to capture LC n-3 PUFA. To achieve this, marine farms would require a means of harvesting worms requirement to be in shallow water, pump wastes ashore or have means to harvest worms from underneath net pens
• Difficult to isolate true quantities of actual ragworm meal or slurry available.Current guestimate is ± 500 tonnes p.a. for UK
Food by-products and waste
• Reporting is a bit mismatched but, according to WRAP:8.3 million tonnes of household food waste is produced p.a. in the UKOverall waste from food and drink industry is 18.4 mt/y (11.9 mt household / 6.5 mt
supply chain related) opportunities for food recycling into agri- / aquaculture
• Making use of product that otherwise would have gone to landfill represents an opportunity for sustainability credit
• Catering waste – could include excess cooked / prepared food – unlikely to be free from meat or dairy issues with current non-LAP compliance (and traceability?)
• Considerable amount of bakery / confectionary / snack items fail quality control (before despatch) or exceed sell by date in store
• Currently some processors collecting bakery / snack / confection waste and blending + cooking to generate dry meals which are finding their way into feeds for terrestrial agriculture via compound feed producers
• Basic lack of knowledge regarding the suitability of many of the ingredients and / or additives in snacks and confectionary for fish
• Much of the product arrives for processing having been packed or wrapped – mechanised removal does not remove all of packaging before cooking and even after drying + grinding some still remains
• Recovered vegetable oil – oil from fryers that is “spent” – probably of insufficientnutritional quality for use in fish feeds and has baggage attached
Earth worms and insects – “where there’s muck, there’s opportunity”
• Increasing emphasis on composting and recycling of food and agricultural waste opportunities to grow invertebrates as a means of bioremediation
• Processes being developed to grow black soldier and house fly maggots on substrates including pig, poultry and cow manure (with / without fish offal) and palm kernel meal – possibly not the best use of the fish offal or the palm kernel meal but, a good use for manure
• Black soldier fly prepupae contain ± 44% DM and 42% and 35% CP and CF on a dry matter basis respectively with opportunity to increase CP by extracting fat and chitin
• Feeding trials with earth worms and maggots as protein sources in feeds for both cold and warm water fish species go back to the early 1980s and have generally been successful
• Maggots believed to secrete antimicrobial substances reduction of risk of transfer of E. coli and Salmonella
• Projections indicate a potential production of 1.8 million tonnes of dried meal p.a. if maggots were fed on the waste of the USA’s stock of 67 million pigs
• Parting shot – fly actively pupae reduce the pathogen contentof manure – organic crops do not
Implementation
• Technical arguments are largely understood or can be clarified – there are no fundamental barriers to evaluating opportunities
• Scale / availability – The current solutions work because we are dealing with commodities that are available globally and seasonality is manageable from suppliers we (mostly) trust
• Making compound fish feed to, and making it with materials of, the standard expected by all in the value chain (UFAS, FEMAS, GMP+, GlobalGAP ….), dictates a certain scale for participants – Niche suppliers with unusual products in irregular quantities have a lot of checks and balances to overcome
• With the exception of LAPS, few of the “novel” feed materials offer opportunities for cost savings – many rely on generating marketing value that is not always appreciated by all users
• The UK is a market burdened with a lot of baggage related to GM, food safety, welfare and provenance that does not apply or is more readily accepted in many other markets
The biggest barrier to implementation of new approachesis consumer perception
The Values Triangle
Sustainability
Cost Effectiveness
Healthy Eating
Maximise use of SA FO at
penalty of FCR, high
marine index and flexibility
w.r.t. fishery selection
Set rigorous controls on
fishery selection but limit
ability to source high
performing meals / oils
and ability to deliver
highest levels of high n-3
FAs
Cost optimised (not
necessarily best) SGR + FCR
at risk of not meeting most
rigorous sustainability criteria
and reduced ability to deliver
highest n-3 FA level in flesh
CONTRARY TO POPULAR MISCONCEPTION,
THERE IS NO SWEET SPOT