The success of alternative feed ingredients depends on growing consumer awareness of the pressure on wild-catch fisheries, Karim Kurmaly CEO of algal oil producer Veramaris, told IntraFish.
The Netherlands-based alternative feed ingredient firm opened its $200 million (€178.3 million), omega-3 enriched marine algal oil facility in Nebraska, two years after it announced the initial plan to commercialize its product.
The new Blair, Nebraska, facility will produce 90 percent of the company's total production of omega-3 EPA and DHA algal oil, which represents 15 percent of the global salmon industry's demand for omega-3, equating to 1.2
