{"id":5076,"date":"2014-09-15T05:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T05:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2014-09-15T05:28:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T05:28:49","slug":"nofimas-heterotrophic-algae-to-replaces-fish-oil-in-salmon-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/nofimas-heterotrophic-algae-to-replaces-fish-oil-in-salmon-feed.html","title":{"rendered":"Nofima\u2019s Heterotrophic Algae to Replaces Fish Oil in Salmon Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/algae-biofuel1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5078\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/algae-biofuel1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"algae-biofuel\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/algae-biofuel1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/algae-biofuel1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Nofima, the Norwegian institute of food, fisheries and aquaculture research, has shown through their experiments that heterotrophic algae can completely replace fish oil in salmon feed.<\/p>\n<p>The Algae meal seems to be a better alternative in various aspects<\/p>\n<p>The tested heterotrophic algae grow in the presence of oxygen and a carbon source, while a phototrophic alga specifically requires light and carbon dioxide<\/p>\n<p>The productivity for heterotrophic algae is approximately 10 gram\/l when grown in large reactors, while it is 0.06 gram\/l for phototrophic algae<\/p>\n<p>It contains 3 times more fat, particularly omega-3, when compared with fish oil<\/p>\n<p>This alga is a non GMO<\/p>\n<p>Small Salmons fed with 200 grams of this algae meal for a period of 12 weeks, have tripled their body weight \u00a0irrespective of the feed they received<\/p>\n<p>The presence of short chain saturated fatty acids in the algae meal eliminates the use of palm oil as a stabilizing agent in the fish feed<\/p>\n<p>Nofima currently works on improving the processing methods of algae, and focuses on the use of algae meal as a whole-life food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefishsite.com\/fishnews\/24088\/heterotrophic-algae-may-fully-replace-fish-oil-in-salmon-feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nofima, the Norwegian institute of food, fisheries and aquaculture research, has shown through their experiments that heterotrophic algae can completely replace fish oil in salmon feed. The Algae meal seems to be a better alternative in various aspects The tested heterotrophic algae grow in the presence of oxygen and a carbon source, while a phototrophic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}