Future of Fish Feed (F3) is a collaborative effort between NGOs, researchers, and private partnerships to accelerate the commercialization of innovative, alternative aquaculture feed ingredients to replace wild-caught fish. Past feeds have relied on wild-caught fish, which is unsustainable since wild caught stocks are declining.
Projects
1. Launched the F3 Fish-Free Feed Challenge in 2015 to create Fish Free Feeds, also called F3. The winner of this challenge was announced on Oct 3-4 at the Global Aquaculture Alliance in Dublin. The challenge was for an aquafeed company to either produce and sell the most seafood-free aquaculture feed using innovative formulations of proteins and lipids by the challenge end date, September 15, 2017, or be the first to reach 100,000 metric tons (mT) of seafood-free feed sales. Companies from Australia, Austria, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Africa, Thailand, and the U.S. competed. A list of companies that had sales of verified F3 feed products is here.
2. Held a meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area in Jan 2017 to facilitate networking between the contestants of Fish-Free Feeds and large feed companies. Discussions at this meeting prompted the development of our Feed Innovation Network, which encourages sustainable innovations in fish-free aquaculture feed ingredients by sharing experimental protocols, and directing ingredient companies to test facilities that can implement these protocols.
3. Launched the F3 Fish Oil Challenge.
Supporting Organizations
Thanks to Anonymous Donors as well!
Past Sponsors
Leadership
| Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons | University of Arizona | Former President World Aquaculture Society, Aquaculture and Integrated Farming Systems, Aquaculture Extension Specialist, Tilapia Expert, Fullbright Fellow |
Technical Advisory Panel
| Dr. Rick Barrows | Aquatic Feed Technologies, USDA/ARS ret. | Nutritionist, Feed and Fish physiology, F3 Chief Scientific Adviser Background, Publications |
| Dr. Roz Naylor | Stanford University | Food Security and the Environment, Economist |
| Dr. Hillary Egna | Oregon State University | Aquaculture and International Development |
| Dr. Michael Tlusty | University of Massachusetts Boston | Seafood Sustainability, Research Faculty in Aquaculture, Sustainable Seafood Policy and Management |
International Advisory Panel
| Dr. Ling Cao | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Stanford University | Sustainable Aquaculture/Policy and Management, China |
| Dr. Loc Tran | Nong Lam University, Shrimp Vet Laboratory | Disease Expert, Vietnam |
Coordination & Administration
| Dr. Barbara Page | Anthropocene Institute | |
| Kelly Alfrey | Anthropocene Institute | |
| Alex Driedger | Anthropocene Institute | |
| Annie Reisewitz | Strategic Ocean Solutions | F3 Media Liaison |