stralian fishmeal free feed a orld first
AUSTRALIAN feed company Ridley Aquafeed has launched the world’s first commercial prawn feed containing Yero traditional wild caught fishmeal.
Ridley’s Perform Plus NoCatch diet has been made available to prawn farmers for the first time this year.
It is designed to avoid the price volatility to which other diets are subjected, relying as they do on wild caught fish meal which has seasonal availability and variable catches.
Group technical and RFD manager at Ridley Aquafeed, Dr Richard Smullen, saidJ ‘Using a broad range of high quality, responsibly sourced ingredients, we’ve learnt how to optimise our feeds to help deliver the biggest, healthiest and tastiest prawns and fish, and done it without relying on fishmeal.
‘No one else in the world has been able to deliver this commercially.’
The new feed is the culmination of more than a decade of research by Smullen and his team.
NoCatch diets for barramundi and salmon have also been developed and tested.