Aquaculture feed provider Skretting won the edie Sustainability Leaders Award in London for its MicroBalance FLX, a salmon feed containing no fishmeal.

The product was launched in 2016, making Skretting the first to offer diets for salmon containing no fishmeal.

The product is a result of three decades of research conducted by the Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre into the potential for alternative raw materials to replace traditional, finite, marine-based feed components, while ensuring the growth, health and final nutritional qualities that consumers expect from their seafood.

Skretting is well aware that it needs to reduce the pressure put on the planet’s resources, said Trygve Berg Lea, Skretting sustainability manager.

“We need to produce more from less,” Berg Lea said.