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New study dives deep into the sustainability of an alternative aquaculture feed ingredient

Researchers with UC Santa Cruz’s ecological aquaculture facility have developed a new life cycle sustainability assessment documenting the environmental benefits and impacts of using the marine microalga Schizochytrium sp. as an alternative aquaculture feed ingredient to replace fish oil sourced from wild-caught forage fish.

The study, published in the journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, found that Schizochytrium sp. could be a more sustainable feed ingredient than  in categories like global warming impact and use of biotic resources from living organisms…

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