Production

Skretting has 17 fish feed factories in Australia, Canada, Chile (only one was up and running through 2009), France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the USA, Norway, Spain, Turkey and the UK, and a dedicated R&D centre in Norway. Skretting has a comprehensive range of diets available to suit all needs of fish farmers. They are grouped into three types, tailored to suit the different lifecycle of the fish: Optimised Nutrition, Proactive Nutrition and Specific Nutrition.
Optimised Nutrition provides all the feeds that meet the needs of fish under normal conditions, when the production conditions are optimal and the fish are healthy and strong, to deliver the high growth potential of the fish. Proactive Nutrition prepares fish for challenging times. This could be stress resulting from higher temperatures, handling and grading or if there is an infection in the region. Specific Nutrition provides the fish with nutrition that will give them the best opportunity to withstand the effects of a disease, environmental challenges or for those times when you must take specific quality and end-market requirements into consideration. Each formulation features nutrition specific to the challenge the fish are exposed to.
Skretting produced approximately 1.3 million tonnes of fish feed in 2009, of which about 75% was dedicated to salmon feed and seawater trout. The remaining 25% represents freshwater trout and eel and marine feeds such as sea bream, sea bass, yellowtail, barramundi, turbot, halibut and cod.

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