World Feeds Limited

Salmon farmers consider sea lice as the biggest threat to their industry. Over the last decade, salmon producers in Norway and Scotland have lost ~260,000T/yr (10%) from parasitic sea lice infestation, costing ~£275m/year. Wholesale cost of farmed and wild salmon rose 50% from 2016, as fish farmers from Scotland to Norway and Chile tried to tackle sea lic...

Salmon farms across the world are being devastated by infestations of sea lice that target salmon. There is an undeniable need for greater volumes of healthy cleaner-fish to control (eat) sea‐lice off farmed salmon. However, the current approach is to extract cleaner-fish from the 'wild' and breeding them in captivity on feeds that are nutritionally defic...

No change from original scope apart from that we cannot conduct the necessary field testing due to Covid-19 restrictions. Therefore we wish to use the remaining funds to further refine our prototype device based on recent feedback. We will conduct the field testing next year April-Sept 2021 at our own cost. The projected impact of our proposed technology ...

To develop and embed bespoke manufacturing processes to produce high volumes of a high value novel flake product.

According to the UN, the world’s population is projected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050 and the present per capita availability of protein cannot be met by livestock and dairy farming sectors alone. Conservation International states that “the low environmental impact of aquaculture should be expanded to alleviate the growing global food crisis”. Expansion i...

More than 20 million seahorses are and traded worldwide each year and there is every indication that seahorses and members of Syngnathidae, the family also encompassing pipefish and seadragons could be extinct in as little as 10 years. Over fishing as by-catch in trawler nets and loss of habitat are seen as the main culprits. Although the vast majority of...