One of the goals of Nofima Ingrediens is to increase the utilisation and added value of marine feed raw materials and ingredients, and Nofima Ingrediens is working strategically to identify the essential components in marine raw materials that are of significance for the formulation of commercial fish feeds.
This area involves the use of biotechnology to increase accessibility to nutrients in marine and vegetable feed raw materials.
Research on the use of alternative feed raw materials includes the utilisation of plankton (krill and amphipods), trimmings and by-products, ensiled raw materials and vegetable protein raw materials.
This field of research involves interdisciplinary competence and experience within raw materials, nutrition, technology and biotechnology, feed technology and processing.
The institute's technology competence is central in being able to develop high-quality ingredients and feed raw materials, and in the development of feed for established and new aquaculture species.
Nofima Ingrediens has for many years worked on developing new feed concepts and specially adapted feed for various species such as shellfish and marine fish and has contributed to solving technical bottlenecks for commercial fry production.
Within the research field nutrition, Nofima Ingrediens is focusing on the development of ingredients for functional feeds and foods, health-related research and the development of feed for new species.
Users of these research results are primarily the aquaculture and feed industry, as well as the ingredients industry.
