IMPULSO researches the technological development of an alternative feed source for aquaculture

Impulso Industrial Alternativo, S.A. is carrying out the experimental development project entitled “New feed source for aquaculture with a high content of PUFAs and proteins, through the industrial cultivation of Nereis diversicolor from waste from large-tonnage water recirculation systems”.

This project, in which Impulso Industrial Alternativo, S.A. acts as the lead partner, is being implemented in collaboration with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) and the Regional Agri-Food Research and Development Service (SERIDA) of the Principality of Asturias.

The main objective of the project is to develop an intensive industrial polychaete cultivation system using residual sediments from aquaculture facilities as a feed source for the fish in those same closed-cycle aquaculture facilities. The aim is to produce a new feed to replace fishmeal, currently the main feed source for farmed aquaculture species, thereby addressing the significant problem of the lack of animal substitutes that provide essential amino acids.

This project is being co-financed by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness under the 2013–2016 National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation, and by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the STATE PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION ORIENTED TO THE CHALLENGES OF SOCIETY 2015, file number RTC-2015-3248-2.