Mobile Artemia Production Unit: Toward sustainable protein production

水产养殖现在是增长最快的食品部门，产量与传统渔业一样大。因此，水产养殖饲料正在遵循这一趋势，严重依赖以植物为基础的配料，辅之以占渔业总量20%的基本海洋配料(鱼粉)。然而，这种战略成分现在是一种充分开发的资源，替代成分不能完全取代鱼粉。这种海洋蛋白危机危及水产养殖业和人类营养的可持续增长。Aquanzo正在率先实现海洋原料生产从捕捞到养殖的转变。我们正在开发技术(工程学、遗传学和饲料营养)，利用农业副产品在陆地上大规模养殖海洋浮游动物卤虫。我们已经证明，卤虫粉的营养价值与鱼粉相当。因此，我们现在正在推进扩大生产运营的计划。为了实现这一目标，我们组建了一个专家团队(9名员工和5名顾问)，在Innovate UK、上汽和几家工业公司的支持下，从鱼类营养到工程。我们已经生产了几公斤产品，并计划在鱼和家禽饲料中进行几次试验，以验证和重复第一个可在全球范围内获得的养殖动物饲料的海洋成分。该项目将通过分析移动单元的可行性来创新新的养殖系统，以利用未充分利用的行业营养丰富的废水，并减少运营对环境的影响。我们的项目是与格拉斯哥大学合作进行的，他们正在与我们合作开发移动单元的物联网监控。通过这个项目，我们将开发和测试一种移动单元方法，评估使用营养丰富的废水养殖的海洋成分对经济和环境的影响。这种创新的方法将有助于加速这些技术的商业化，使麦芽、酿酒厂和产生大量废水的乳制品行业受益。这种生产海洋成分的根本转变将能够支持水产养殖、动物饲料和人类营养的增长，同时通过本地化生产减少对环境的影响。它还将巩固英国作为全球问题创新解决方案领导者的地位。

Aquaculture is now the fastest-growing food sector and is as big as traditional fisheries in production volume. As such, aquaculture feed is following this trend, relying heavily on plant based ingredients complemented by essential marine ingredients (fishmeal), which represent 20% of the total fisheries volumes. However, this strategic ingredient is now a fully exploited resource and alternative ingredients cannot fully replace fishmeal. This marine protein crisis endangers the sustainable growth of aquaculture and human nutrition.Aquanzo is pioneering the transition of marine ingredients production from harvesting to farming. We are developing technologies (engineering, genetics and feedstock nutrition) to farm artemia, a marine zooplankton, on land and at scale using agricultural byproducts. We have demonstrated that artemia meal is nutritionally comparable to fishmeal. As a result, we are now moving forward with plans to scale up production operations.To achieve this, we have assembled a team of experts (9 staff and 5 advisors) from fish nutrition to engineering with the support of Innovate UK, SAIC and several industrial companies. We have produced several kilos of product and have several trials planned in both fish and poultry diets to validate and iterate the first farmed marine ingredients for animal feed available globally.This project will innovate the novel farming system by analysing the feasibility of a mobile unit in order to leverage underused industries' nutrient-rich wastewater and reduce environmental impact of operation. Our project is being carried out in collaboration with the University of Glasgow (CENSIS), who are partnering with us to develop the mobile unit's IoT monitoring.Through this project, we will develop and test a mobile unit approach that assesses the economic and environmental impact of farmed marine ingredients using nutrient-rich wastewater. This innovative approach will help accelerate the commercialisation of these technologies, benefitting industries such as malting, distilleries, and dairy industries that produce large volumes of wastewater.This fundamental shift in producing marine ingredients will enable supporting the growth of aquaculture and animal feed and human nutrition while reducing the environmental impact by producing locally. It will also cement the role of the UK as a leader in innovative solutions to global problems.