Shrimp grow faster on QRILL™ AQUA Meal and Oil – with significant cost savings

Krill Meal and Krill Oil have shown promising potential as ingredients in shrimp feed in a series of trials conducted in Brazil on behalf of Akvaforsk. Krill meal fully replaced anchovy fishmeal and soya lecithin with no reduction in growth performance and with a higher economic margin compared with the standard shrimp diet.

The trials were conducted by Alberto Nunes of the Laboratory of Shrimp Nutrition at the Instituto de Ciencias do Mar (Labomar) in the Federal University of Ceara, Brazil.
Nunes said: “The data indicated that krill meal and krill oil can fully replace fishmeal, soya lecithin or cholesterol and meet L. vannamei nutritional requirements.” He added that there are significant formulation cost savings in comparison with the base diet.

Other tests performed by Nunes showed that in high salinity conditions – which can occur in grow-out ponds where salinity fluctuates between the rainy and dry seasons – krill oil outperformed fish oil.

SOURCE: AQUA CULTURE Asia Pacific Magazine, September/October 2009

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Shrimp grow faster on QRILL™ AQUA Meal and Oil – with significant cost savings

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