date:Dec 29, 2012
s 60 percent.
Higher fishmeal and fish oil prices are also driving use of replacements, such as soybeans. Higher fishmeal prices mean that fish meal is less a commodity and more a strategic feed ingredient, fed only at the critical stages in the growing cycle or only to the high-value species.
In aquaculture the feed formulation will be adjusted also. Soy meal is increasingly replacing fishmeal and soy or canola oil will continue to replace fish oil. Its very dynamic. Typically the ratio betwe