Pellets must perform in the water 

Well balanced, nutritious, healthy: the food requirements of fish and shrimp are the same as they are for people. In fact, we use a lot of the same equipment to make our aquaculture feeds as are used to make human feed food. The biggest difference? Our feed has the added complexity of being submerged in water, meaning it has to be robust enough to handle feeding systems, while remaining palatable so the fish and shrimp want to eat it! A difficult balance, but one we have mastered with world leading feed technology.

An illustration of feed pellets with dancing ballerina legs

Aside from having to pack a nutritional punch and be appealing to eat, AND produced using technology matched to the farming system, the pellet itself has to have very specific physical characteristics.

It needs to:

  • hold it's shape
  • not be dusty
  • not be oily
  • be digestible
  • not leak nutrients
  • and sometimes also ensure the faeces stays together out the other end!