Good Practice: SPAROS R&D – FEEDNETICS™
Category:NewsSPAROS is a science & technology company located in Portugal, specialized in the development of new products and tailored nutritional solutions for the aquaculture market. The company was created in 2008.
One of Sparos’ products is FEEDNETICS™, a prediction tool that evaluates the effects of aquafeeds on fish production. FEEDNETICS™ can be used by fish farmers to optimize feeding, by aquafeed companies to provide tailored client support and by academics to leverage their research, by:
- comparing estimated FCR of different feeds or feeding regimes;
- comparing different feeds or feeding regimes, in order to estimate the most cost-effective;
- predicting the expected growth and body composition of a new feed under a farm´s annual temperature profile;
- predicting the waste (Solids, N and P) at a given site and comparing for different feeds or feeding regimes;
- assessing how different feeds perform in farm sites with different temperature profiles.
The target fish species are: Gilthead seabream, European seabass, Rainbow trout, Atlantic salmon, Nile tilapia.