Industrial aquaculture will remain the main driver of growth in fisheries and aquaculture production worldwide. With increasing demand for sustainable, high-quality seafood, aquafeed producers face the challenge of balancing nutritional requirements, environmental responsibility and cost efficiency.

Aquafeed represents up to 80% of production costs and much of aquaculture’s environmental footprint.

Legacy ingredients like fishmeal, soy, and terrestrial crops expose aquafeed producers to ecological limits and price constraints, exposure to volatile commodity markets, and growing regulatory and consumer pressure and preferences. Without rethinking how fish, shrimps and crabs are fed, aquaculture risks replicating the same resource constraints that challenge terrestrial livestock.