In our collective rush to build a greener future, we have become dangerously addicted to the myth of the ‘silver bullet.’ We look at complex global challenges and demand clean, uncomplicated solutions. In the...

By Brett Glencross Recently I was able to attend the 22nd International Symposium of Fish Nutrition and Feeding (ISFNF) in the beautiful tropical Australian city of Darwin. This event, coordinated every two years by the...

A recently published study by the University of Stirling titled ‘Sustainable aquafeed? The devil is in the detail’, provides a sobering reality check for the global aquaculture industry. For decades, the narrative of ‘sustainable seafood’ has...

  For decades, the environmental narrative surrounding aquaculture—specifically the farming of Atlantic salmon—has been dominated by a single metric: the ‘Fish-In-Fish-Out ratio. Critics have argued that feeding wild-caught fish to farmed fish was an ecological absurdity....

By Brett Glencross, Technical Director, IFFO, UK A recent paper titled ‘From farm to food systems: Developing aquaculture models to explore their role in food systems’ provides a novel approach to how we can better assess the...

by Brett Glencross, Technical Director, IFFO, UK   Global aquaculture continues to expand, yet its growth is no longer tied to the capture of wild fish. Feed performance, however, has begun to plateau. Breaking through this...

by Brett Glencross, Technical Director, IFFO, UK It seems that every week there is more news of impending global environmental disaster with an ever-growing list of challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and growing...

Column by Brett Glencross As the global demand for sustainable food sources grows, among proteins, salmon farming is increasingly hailed as an eco-friendly alternative. With a carbon footprint of approximately 4kg of CO₂-equivalent (CO₂e) per kilogram...

by Brett Glencross One of the key benefits from consuming farmed seafood is their health promoting benefits as part of our diet. But what actually contributes to that claim? In a world brimming with health...

Brett Glencross A frequent query I get in my role with the Marine Ingredients Organisation (IFFO) is “how sustainable are fishmeal and fish oil really?” Well, that really depends on what we mean by ‘sustainable’. There...