Proteios offers a sustainable approach to fish and animal feed
A circular economy approach
- It takes one hectare of land to produce 700 kilograms of soy and 600 litres of water to produce one kilogram of soy.
- Protein from fish, maggots and organic waste require a fraction of these resources.
- Proteios’ solutions lay the ground for more circular systems that repurpose nutrients for feed.
- Organic resources such as those from food waste and fish by-products can safely be returned to the soil after creating additional value as fish and animal food. These cycles regenerate living systems, such as soil, which provide renewable resources and support biodiversity.
- This can also help to reduce other major environmental impacts of producing feed crops like land, energy, and water use while bolstering food security.
The license issuer is given the right to offtake 50% of the protein we produce.
Supporting national food security
- Given population growth and rising incomes, it is estimated that the demand for food will rise by 70 to 100 percent by 2050.
- To meet this need, food production from aquaculture and animal farming needs to increase dramatically.
- For many countries, this is impossible to archive due to the shortage of quality feed.
- That’s why Proteios offer nations where we have a license for fisheries of mesopelagic fish, the right to offtake 50% of the protein we produce.
- Using the protein as feed for livestock and fish farming will make a substantial contribution to food security.
Local content, local value creation
Our operations are built on local labor and mainly procurement of local goods and services. For mesopelagic fishing, local fishers capture the fish with their trawlers. They deliver the catch to our production vessel to be transformed into marine aquafeed. Then the protein is either sent to the market or, according to the agreement, acquired by the license owner
The future of feed will look different
There is a big shortfall between the amount of food we produce today, and the amount needed to feed everyone in 2050. To close that gap, food production needs to increase, especially within agriculture and the fishery. Rising feed demand means rising feed prices. To safeguard profits against this, the feed industry needs to search for ingredients that improve feed efficiency and support gut health. This will cause an increased demand for cost-effective and healthy protein products from sources like mesopelagic fish, maggots and food waste.
Environmental concerns affecting the feed industry
Environmental concerns together with animal welfare are causing an increased consumer interest in the whole food supply chain. This trend is highly affecting fish and animal farmers. Using alternative protein recourses is one way for them to satisfy customers’ requirements for more sustainable food products.