Biotech company aims to turn pollution into fish feed

By Robert Outram | October 28, 2020

A UK biotech business is developing a process that could turn industrial emissions into fish and animal feed. The company, Deep Branch, has secured investment of €2.5 million from the European Innovation Council Accelerator fund to scale up the sustainable generation of protein that could transform food production and supply chains. The funding will go…

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Stirling explores feed factor in sea lice fight

By Jenny Hjul | September 13, 2019

A NEW £300,000 study involving Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture (IoA) and a leading animal feed manufacturer will explore how feed ingredients can reduce infections in farmed fish. Led by Dr Armin Sturm, a senior lecturer at the Institute and a sea lice expert, the research could reduce the need for anti-parasite treatments in aquaculture. If…

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