NOAA-USDA Alternative Aquaculture Feeds Initiative - Public Comment

Public Comment on Alternative Feeds for Aquaculture Comments Received by NOAA Nov. 15, 2007 through February 29, 2008 Contact: Kate Naughten Outreach Coordinator NOAA Aquaculture Program Kate.Naughten@noaa.gov (240) 687-9811 http://aquaculture.noaa.gov Dear Sir or Madam, Please allow me the opportunity to comment on the NOAA Aquaculture Program’s Alternative Feeds Initiative. I have worked in the field of Aquaculture for fourteen years; six of which were directly associated with the research of Alternative Feed Ingredients for Aquaculture. I now work for the California Department of Fish and Game. My research began as a graduate student at Purdue University under the direction of Dr. Paul Brown. I later continue this research in private industry for a large Canadian Agricultural Cooperative (Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Saskatoon, SK, Canada). My research included in-depth investigations of soy, corn, canola, pulse crops (i.e.. field peas, faba beans), alfalfa and flax. Through this research I found the most promising area to be a dry processing technology known as "air-classification". Air-Classification is a common process that utilizes a wind turbine to separate particles for various purposes. I have found that this process, when utilized with very finely ground pulse crops (particularly faba beans) can produce a high quality protein concentrate. The process works well on many ...