A contest with grand ambitions of improving the sustainability of fish feed used in aquaculture is driving innovation amongst feed manufacturers.
The Fish-Free Feed (F3) challenge was created in 2016 to accelerate the development of aquaculture diets made without fish or fish oil. Eight teams have entered the challenge, competing against each other to be the first to sell 100,000 metric tons of their feed by 15 September, 2017. If none has reached that threshold within the allotted time, the group that has sold the most feed by the end-date wins the grand prize, which is USD 200,000 (EUR ), according to the competition’s organizers.
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