Responsibility
Seafood’s best friend: Once wasted fish byproducts are now a bounty for cats and dogs
Alaska seafood processors are turning fish skins and heads into pet products, heeding environmental mandates for greater utilization of byproducts.
Innovation & Investment
Rubbish to revenue: How scientists are upcycling seafood waste into biofuel and roads
Scientists are upcycling seafood waste – from shells to fishing nets – into fuel and infrastructure, pointing to new value streams.
Intelligence
Industry guide reveals how full utilization can unlock value of shrimp byproducts
A new report explores how the global shrimp industry can eliminate waste by transforming processing byproducts into valuable products.
Responsibility
No more landfills: Great Lakes region commits to full utilization of fish byproducts
Most Great Lakes commercial fish waste is no longer landfilled, as companies commit to full utilization and new markets for byproducts.
Aquafeeds
Fishmeal and fish oil alternatives are here but a greater scale is needed for true impact
While salmon farmers are reducing fishmeal and fish oil usage, alternative ingredients are promising but supplies need scaling up, feed experts say.
Innovation & Investment
Could ‘seawool’ – a textile made from mussel waste – be part of the future of sustainable design?
Seastex upcycles mussel waste into ‘seawool’ – a recyclable, biodegradable textile offering a green alternative to synthetics.
Fisheries
Potential to valorize byproducts from the invasive Atlantic blue crab in the Mediterranean region
Blue crab byproducts – proteins, lipids, chitins, minerals and pigments – can reduce environmental impacts and create valorization opportunities.
Aquafeeds
Aquafeed applications of shrimp processing waste
Products from shrimp processing waste are promising high-quality aquafeed ingredients that utilize and valorize shrimp solid waste streams.
Aquafeeds
It all starts with whisky: Scottish company ramping up microalgae biomass production for aquaculture and pet foods
With a decentralized circular economy approach to microalgae production, MiAlgae is positioned to contribute to the growing basket of alternative feed ingredients.
Aquafeeds
Food waste and hemp are the latest novel aquafeed ingredients gaining attention
As pressure on the ocean's resources intensifies, the search is on elsewhere for solutions to provide the protein that fish need to grow.
Fisheries
The WaSeaBi Project: Valorization of seafood side-streams through the design of new holistic value chains
Project supports economically viable fisheries and aquaculture, helping overcome barriers to the valorization of seafood side-streams.
Innovation & Investment
Can fish scales be upcycled for water pollution control and encryption?
Scientists have uncovered a novel method that allows heat-treated fish scales to be upcycled for pollution control and encryption.
Intelligence
Icelandic biologics company using fish skins to heal wounds is acquired for more than $1 billion
Danish medical products company Coloplast will acquire Kerecis, a biologics wound-care company in Iceland using fish skins to heal wounds.
Aquafeeds
Brown shrimp byproduct is a suitable ingredient for Pacific white shrimp diets
Growth and feed utilization of L. vannamei improved when brown shrimp processing remains were included in higher proportions than fishmeal.
Aquafeeds
Fermenting fish byproducts and citrus peels for use in aquafeeds
Researchers look at transforming byproducts into aquafeed supplements rich in healthy microorganisms and with high protein content.
Aquafeeds
New Oregon fishmeal facility embraces circular economy by upcycling fish trimmings
Taking a circular economy approach, a new Scoular fishmeal processing facility will upcycle local fish trimmings into aquafeed.