What Aquaculture Needs
Nov. 13th, 2004 05:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakI was thinking the other day about ideas to modify salmon to eat soybean meal rather than the small costal fish currently used. It seems to me this will be a non-trivial task and may not produce a desirable end product. Why not then feed the soybeans to an animal that the salmon will feed on happily? For that matter some sort of small to smallish animal that was an efficient converter of plant carbohydrates to proteins would be a boon to every sort of aquiculture from salmon to shrimp farming. Something like a brine shrimp adapted to feed upon ground up soybeans directly.
If the species were some form of shrimp this would have the added benefit in salmon of getting rid of the need to add color to their flesh as the salmon would be feeding on food that would make them naturally pink.
Sometime I'm going to research if anyone has investigated this. Of course my idea might be totally loonie and that's why no one is working on it.
If the species were some form of shrimp this would have the added benefit in salmon of getting rid of the need to add color to their flesh as the salmon would be feeding on food that would make them naturally pink.
Sometime I'm going to research if anyone has investigated this. Of course my idea might be totally loonie and that's why no one is working on it.
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