Nutreco's captive fish feeding subsidiary Skretting has chosen Maspalomas to hold the AquaTraining meeting in November sponsored by AquaGen AS, Sterner AS, Laksesystemer AS and Pharmaq Analytiq AS as well as Neptun Salmo. The Skretting AquaTraining will be held in Maspalomas from November 9 to 16, 2024 with an agenda that will bring together experts in raw materials to feed and provide pharmacy services to the artificial fishing industry, where The south of Gran Canaria is the leader in exports for the financial product with a Canarian name but Gothic direction Aquanaria.
Skretting Norway only purchases marine raw materials from whole fish that are certified or subject to a Fishery Improvement Project (FIP). All species and their origin can be found here, including information on the raw plant materials we use. In addition to other important data for our planet, people and animals. The forage fish dependency ratio (FFDR) for fish oil was 1,03 and 0,51 for fishmeal. The proportion of cuts in fishmeal and fish oil combined was 25,9 percent.
The company notes in its 2023 sustainability report that "every food production leaves a mark and we at Skretting work hard to make our part as sustainable as possible" and that "to achieve our ESG goals and constantly improve in what we do we are transparent and share this data with our customers and the public.
The raw materials it uses have the greatest impact on our footprint and the fish fed to Skretting. By 2023, the reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per 1 kilo of food was 48 percent lower than in 2018, our reference year. The main reasons for the significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions are partly due to changes in the raw materials we use.
For 2022 and 2023, the carbon footprint per kilo of food was reduced by 4,5 percent from 2022, so that Skretting food in 2023 had an emission factor of 1,69 kg CO 2 eq per kilo of food. Total emissions were reduced by 3,9 percent, while our production increased by 2,2 percent. Skretting Norway's absolute GHG footprint at the factory gate was 1.021.988 tonnes CO 2 eq in 2023.
