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Norway’s Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre expands to include RAS facilities

The facility will be mostly used to conduct trials for salmon product development within 12 independent recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), according to a release.

In addition to research on feed and formulations, the facility will also evaluate feed interactions and influences on system performance.

“Attempts to mitigate the biological risks associated with traditional aquaculture is leading to a lot of momentum for closed fish production systems, and this is happening all over the world,” Dr. Paulo Mira Fernandes, researcher and RAS expert at ARC said in the release. “While these are unique systems with their own particular challenges, Skretting has been operating within this space for a long time; we brought the first recirc-specific diet to the market in 2009. The knowledge and expertise that we continue to amass along with the R&D facilities that we have in place will prove invaluable as more and more of these systems come on stream.”

Skretting also has recirculation research units located in Chile and Australia to cater to the needs of production facilities requiring customized feeds.

“We know that feeding the fish means feeding the system, and our knowledge in this area ensures that we can help our customers maximise their production capacity,” Fernandes said.