The demand for fish farms will steadily increase, and so the demand for feeding these fish will increase, and so the strain on dwindling natural resources by unsustainable, traditional fish farm-feed methods will become such that they will turn to alternative and more sustainable fish feed.
Enter the Black Soldier Fly (BSF). If you follow Ento Nation, you already know we call the BSF “The Money Bug” and let me tell you right here and now, I believe without any doubt whatsoever, that BSF larvae will become a prime ingredient for fish farm feeds of the future.
Overfishing is particularly bad in parts of the developing world where many people already struggle to get enough nutritious food to eat, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report said. “There’s too much pressure on marine resources and we need significantly more commitments from governments to improve the state of their fisheries,” said Manuel Barange, director of the FAO fisheries and aquaculture department. “We predict that Africa will have to import fish in the future,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding that shortages could lead to higher prices, disproportionately affecting the poor.
The U.N. did note that fish farming is beginning to offset the overfishing of oceans and seas, but still warns that the effort is not enough. Currently, 3.2 billion people rely on fish for almost 20% of their animal protein intake…
