{"id":634,"date":"2017-01-12T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T21:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research\/?p=634"},"modified":"2019-08-05T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:10:07","slug":"sustainable-bio-conservation-technology-aqua-feed-production-waste-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research\/2017\/01\/12\/sustainable-bio-conservation-technology-aqua-feed-production-waste-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Bio-conservation Technology for Aqua-feed Production and Waste Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Principal<\/strong> <strong>Investigator:<\/strong>\u00a0Andrei Alyokhin (Biology and Ecology, U海角社区)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners:<\/strong>\u00a0Tap Pryor (Acadia Harvest, Inc.); Michael Peterson (Mechanical Engineering, U海角社区); Edward Bernard (Molecular &amp; Biomedical Sciences, U海角社区)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> 海角社区\u2019s aquaculture industry is the largest in the U.S. and is growing rapidly. However, it currently relies on aquafeeds made with fish meal and fish oil from wild-caught small fishes, which is not an economically and environmentally sustainable approach. We propose adopting an alternative aquafeed production technology that relies on biological conversion of organic wastes using black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.). Our project will result in technology that allows producing large volumes of fly larvae at low cost to meet the needs of 海角社区 aquaculture industry in sustainable aquafeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-development\/ums-research-reinvestment-funds\/\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator:\u00a0Andrei Alyokhin (Biology and Ecology, U海角社区) Partners:\u00a0Tap Pryor (Acadia Harvest, Inc.); Michael Peterson (Mechanical Engineering, U海角社区); Edward Bernard (Molecular &amp; Biomedical Sciences, U海角社区) Abstract: 海角社区\u2019s aquaculture industry is the largest in the U.S. and is growing rapidly. However, it currently relies on aquafeeds made with fish meal and fish oil from wild-caught small fishes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rrf-awards"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","archive_9_5":"","portrait_3x4":"","image_16_9":"","image_15_7":"","image_25_7":"","3col-image_16_9":"","3col-image_15_7":"","3col-image_full":"","4col-image_16_9":"","4col-image_15_7":"","4col-image_full":"","6col-image_16_9":"","6col-image_15_7":"","6col-image_full":"","8col-image_16_9":"","8col-image_15_7":"","8col-image_full":"","9col-image_16_9":"","9col-image_15_7":"","9col-image_full":"","12col-image_16_9":"","12col-image_15_7":"","12col-image_full":"","post-thumbnail":"","gform-image-choice-sm":"","gform-image-choice-md":"","gform-image-choice-lg":"","umaps-featured-image":"","umaps-icon-size":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Principal Investigator:\u00a0Andrei Alyokhin (Biology and Ecology, U海角社区) Partners:\u00a0Tap Pryor (Acadia Harvest, Inc.); Michael Peterson (Mechanical Engineering, U海角社区); Edward Bernard (Molecular &amp; Biomedical Sciences, U海角社区) Abstract: 海角社区\u2019s aquaculture industry is the largest in the U.S. and is growing rapidly. However, it currently relies on aquafeeds made with fish meal and fish oil from wild-caught small fishes, which is not an economically and environmentally sustainable approach. We propose adopting an alternative aquafeed production technology that relies on biological conversion of organic wastes using black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.). 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