Feed often accounts for 60% of total running costs in farms, consequently it is the resource which needs to be managed most prudently

The increase in demand for fish meal and oil from aquaculture production and the reduction in availability has subsequently resulted in large spikes in the cost of this raw material. In order to combat these prices and prevent them being passed on to customers, many feed companies have embraced substitution of marine proteins for terrestrial sources. These highly substituted diets are often said to perform the same as standard historical diets, however, the jury remains out for highly carnivorous fish such as Sea bream and Sea bass

The only way a farm can know if they are receiving the best feed they can afford is to regularly perform comparison trials.

Total production solutions are experts at designing bench marking trials and can follow the trial all the way through to the end. Once the trial is completed, we can provide the customer with full analysis of the fish performance, allowing management to make potentially costly saving initiatives to the feeding regime