International Aquafeed Directory 2023-24
Welcome to the 27th edition of the International Aquafeed Directory & Buyers’ Guide 2023/24, the essential guide for everyone involved in the global aquafeed industry. Last year I wrote about the effects of the war, and the challenges resulting from rising fuel costs, but the industry showed great resilience. The impact of inflation and reduced consumer spending dampened growth in the market at the beginning of the year, but an expected increase in aquaculture production will compensate for a mall decline in wild catches. This edition contains information relating to 450+ businesses and over 850 products, coupled with useful and practical information including the extruder and expander guide. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the businesses that have contributed to the completion of this directory. I also hope that all of our readers across the world remain safe and well.
Welcome to the 27th edition of the International Aquafeed Directory & Buyers’ Guide 2023/24, the essential guide for everyone involved in the global aquafeed industry.
Last year I wrote about the effects of the war, and the challenges resulting from rising fuel costs, but the industry showed great resilience. The impact of inflation and reduced consumer spending dampened growth in the market at the beginning of the year, but an expected increase in aquaculture production will compensate for a mall decline in wild catches.
This edition contains information relating to 450+ businesses and over 850 products, coupled with useful and practical information including the extruder and expander guide.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the businesses that have contributed to the completion of this directory. I also hope that all of our readers across the world remain safe and well.
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12<br />
COMPANY PROFILE F3 CHALLENGE COMPANY PROFILE<br />
F3 Krill Replacement Challenge<br />
Krill is a popular aquaculture feed<br />
ingredient for its nutritional benefits and<br />
use as an attractant that enhances<br />
palatability and fish growth.<br />
Why replace krill?<br />
Demand for krill as a feed ingredient is<br />
growing as fish farmers look for new<br />
sources of attractants that also provide<br />
nutritional benefits. As fishmeal and fish<br />
oil are replaced with alternative<br />
ingredients not naturally found in the<br />
diets, the need for attractants and<br />
palatants is growing. The commercial<br />
krill fishery located in the Arctic and<br />
Antarctic has steadily increased<br />
production over the last decade from a<br />
high of 200,000 tons in 2010 to 450,000<br />
tons in 2020. The rapidly expanding<br />
industrial fishery raises important<br />
sustainability concerns, especially due to<br />
climate change.<br />
A wide variety of marine life depends<br />
upon these tiny shrimp-like crustaceans<br />
at the base of the marine food chain<br />
including whales, penguins, and<br />
commercially important wild fisheries<br />
like salmon, rockfish, squid, and<br />
sardines. Sharp declines in Antarctic<br />
krill densities have occurred in recent<br />
years, which are thought to be the result<br />
of climate-induced changes in ocean<br />
temperature, currents, acidification and<br />
regional overfishing.<br />
A 2021 report in the journal<br />
Communications Biology (https://<br />
www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-<br />
02159-1) showed a 50 percent decline<br />
in krill abundance over the last 60 years<br />
across the North Atlantic Basin<br />
associated with the region’s warming<br />
climate. Other recent studies found that<br />
increased fishing activity coupled with<br />
the impacts of climate change resulted in<br />
a decline in penguin population sizes<br />
(https://link.springer.com/article/10.100<br />
7/s13280-020-01386-w)<br />
and fewer humpback whale pregnancies<br />
(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1<br />
111/gcb.16559) in Antarctica.<br />
Krill, which concentrate in massive<br />
swarms that can be seen from space, also<br />
play an important role in climate<br />
mitigation by locking up carbon in the<br />
deep ocean.<br />
Reducing the dependence on wildcaught<br />
marine ingredients such as krill<br />
can help future-proof the aquaculture<br />
feed industry from supply chain<br />
disruptions and help ensure resiliency of<br />
marine ecosystems.<br />
About the challenge<br />
The F3 Krill Replacement Challenge is to<br />
spark innovation for a more sustainable<br />
substitute for krill. The contest will<br />
incorporate each competitor’s krill<br />
replacements into a plant-based feed<br />
that will be fed to Atlantic salmon for 12<br />
weeks. The krill replacement that results<br />
in the best growth, feed consumption<br />
and survival will win the USD $100,000<br />
prize.<br />
Who can participate?<br />
The contest is open to 10 companies or<br />
teams that are either the owners or<br />
licensees of the rights to distribute the<br />
distinct formulation of the feed additive,<br />
attractant, or other feed enhancing<br />
product, which may be used as a krill<br />
replacement in aquaculture feeds. F3<br />
invites innovators from the feed<br />
additive, ingredient, synthetic biology,<br />
and all other relevant sectors to enter<br />
their products in the challenge.<br />
(https://krill.f3challenge.org/resources/<br />
F3_Krill_Replacement_Challenge_<br />
Competitor_Information_Packet_FINAL<br />
.pdf)<br />
n The F3 Krill Replacement Challenge<br />
https://krill.f3challenge.org<br />
Registration Closes<br />
All Entrants must fill out the<br />
registration form and submit<br />
their sample for qualification<br />
before this deadline. There may<br />
be a possible extension to<br />
October 31 if spots are still open.<br />
August 31, <strong>2023</strong><br />
F3 Krill Replacement<br />
Submission Begins<br />
Qualified entrants can begin to<br />
submit entry materials to the<br />
F3 Team as described in the<br />
Official Rules.<br />
November 01, <strong>2023</strong><br />
F3 Krill Replacement<br />
Submission Ends<br />
All entry materials must be<br />
received before this date.<br />
January 19, 20<strong>24</strong><br />
Challenge Trial Begins<br />
Let the challenge begin! F3 Krill<br />
Replacements will now compete<br />
in a feeding trial for Atlantic<br />
salmon.<br />
March 01, 20<strong>24</strong><br />
Challenge Trial Ends<br />
That's a wrap! F3 Scientific<br />
Advisory Committee and Judges<br />
will review the trial data to<br />
determine a winner.<br />
May <strong>24</strong>, 20<strong>24</strong><br />
Challenge Winner(s)<br />
Announced<br />
The F3 Krill Replacement<br />
Challenge winner will be<br />
announced at an industry<br />
conference in October.<br />
October 31, 20<strong>24</strong><br />
INTERNATIONAL AQUAFEED DIRECTORY <strong>2023</strong>/<strong>24</strong>
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