FISK

By 2050, the earth's population is estimated to grow to 9 billion people. To meet the global sustainability goals, new food sources must be developed. The salmon farming industry is one of the sectors that intends to increase its production capacity in the coming years, but growth both nationally and globally will not be sustainable if the farmed fish is fed with soy or fishmeal. New sustainable protein sources need to be developed and single cell proteins (SCP), produced from forest-based sugars, is one example.

The sustainable circle is closed since the raw material consists of residual products, such as branches, tops and other side streams that have not previously been used in a similar way.

Unique value chain from forest to table

The goal of the international project FISK is to drive development and connect actors from different industries. The project is a collaboration between researchers at RISE Processum in Sweden and RISE PFI in Norway, as well as actors from both the forestry and aquaculture industry, which creates a unique value chain from forest to table. In addition, the project contributes to forest industry companies, smaller companies or service companies in close connection with industry getting a new use and sale opportunity of their products and that the fish farming industry gets access to a new sustainable protein source. The purpose is to create a sufficient basis for an investment decision in the production of SCP.

Make use of side streams

The sidestreams used as raw material for the production of SCP in the project are both sour liquor from the biorefinery process and branches and tops, so-called GROT. Tests of SCP will also be performed on fish with respect to fish health, product quality, environment, new feed ingredients and production technology. FISK will also work with business development of fish feed that contains SCP and a business model will be developed to be able to take further steps in the commercialization work.

The project is a collaboration between Synergifabrikken, Domsjö Fabriker, Woodworks !, Sveaskog and Norraskog.