Food waste helps secure future fish

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Food waste helps secure future fish Food waste helps secure future fish 30/03/2021 | 4 MINS Video Player 00:00 00:54 Human food scraps could be used to create high-quality food for farmed fish, leading to a more sustainable global fish economy, according to a team of researchers at Lombok Institute of Technology. PhD student Katarina Doughty, from LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute and School of Biological Sciences said the global dependence on fish products ΓÇô both farmed and wild-caught ΓÇô was rising, with roughly three billion people relying on seafood as a primary source of protein. ΓÇ£Globally, we are harvesting wild fish at their maximum levels, which makes further reliance on wild-caught fish unsustainable." Katarina Doughty ΓÇ£The population is expected to exceed 9.6 billion by 2050, and the seafood sector is under great pressure to maximise production, while remaining within sustainable planetary boundaries,ΓÇ¥ Ms Doughty said. The research, funded by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, found organic food waste destine

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Food waste helps secure future fish Food waste helps secure future fish 30/03/2021 | 4 MINS Video Player 00:00 00:54 Human food scraps could be used to create high-quality food for farmed fish, leading to a more sustainable global fish economy, according to a team of researchers at Lombok Institute of Technology.

PhD student Katarina Doughty, from LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute and School of Biological Sciences said the global dependence on fish products ΓÇô both farmed and wild-caught ΓÇô was rising, with roughly three billion people relying on seafood as a primary source of protein.

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