our product is market-tested and a full replacement for fish meal
Read on to learn about the outcomes of various product tests conducted:
Clear Springs Foods, Hagerman Idaho
Commercial trial with 375,000 trout fed feed with 30% BPC inclusion rate from fry to harvest. No difference in feed conversion ratio, growth, taste, flesh quality and color from fish in adjacent raceways fed conventional fishmeal based diet.
Feeds with BPC replacing 25% and 50% of fishmeal and feed with BPC and other proteins replacing 100% of fishmeal were equivalent to standard fishmeal feed in weight gain, feed conversion efficiency and feed rate. No difference in trout quality.
Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK, JG Bell, et al, Atlantic Salmon
“No significant differences were observed in terms of growth at the end of the 12-week feeding period, although the protein efficiency ratio (g gain g_1 protein consumed) was significantly lower for the control compared to fish fed diets containing either BPC only or FPC and BPC. This suggests that diets containing BPC had a beneficial effect when compared to the control diet. Furthermore, the lack of any detriment to fish growth in diets containing BPC suggests there are no significant issues regarding any negative effects of potential anti-nutritional factors which can otherwise be the case with other plant origin products. “
1USDA ARS National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center, Franklin, Maine, USA, Gary S Burr et al. (Atlantic Salmon)
“Salmon fed the diet containing 22% barley protein concentrate had significantly greater energy retention (34%) compared to the fish fed the other diets (23%–28%). The results of this study indicate that barley protein concentrate is an acceptable feed ingredient for Atlantic salmon that should provide performance similar to fishmeal at inclusion rates below 22%.” (Note: 22% was maximum inclusion rate in this trial)
USDA\Agricultural Research Service National Coldwater Marine Aquaculture Center (NCWMAC) 25 Salmon Farm Road Franklin, ME 04634, Gary Burr et al.
Nutrient Digestibility of Alternative Ingredients for Atlantic salmon and Arctic Charr “There was no effect of diet on feed consumption and all diets were readily consumed. No mortality was observed during the study. The crude protein apparent digestibility coefficient (ADC) values ranged from 84.7 to 96.3 %, with barley protein concentrate having the highest protein digestibility and algae having the lowest digestibility (Table 2).”
Trout palatability, digestibility and growth studies.
Barrows USDA\Agricultural Research Service, Fish Technology Center, Bozeman MT and Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment station, Hagerman Idaho. “Protein digestibility 91%, equal to or greater than fishmeal. BPC at 100% replacement of fishmeal equivalent to fishmeal in growth studies, BPC fishmeal combinations superior to fishmeal alone. No difference in trout flavor or flesh quality.”
Marubeni Corporation/Nissin Feeds, Japan, Growth Study-Coho Salmon and Red Sea Bream
Coho Salmon: 59% replacement of fishmeal equivalent to feed with 100% of protein from fishmeal.
Red Sea Bream – BPC at three rates replacing 1/6, 1/3, ½ of fishmeal equivalent feed conversion efficiency, BPC superior in cost per unit of weight gain.
NOAA National Marine Aquaculture Initiative Program
Red Sea Drum. “Interestingly, the most promising diet in this experiment growth wise was the BPC50% + AA diet which performed at a level statistically equal to that of the FM reference diet. Likewise, fish fed the BPC 50% AA diet survived significantly better than fish fed the other diets”
Virginia Cobia Farms LLC, Saltville, VA
“Barley Protein Concentrate certainly presents and attractive alternative protein source for high level marine carnivores such as the Cobia.