Day 2 of Fish Waste for Profit opened with six leading developers, researchers and business owners who are trailblazing the way in by product utilisation.

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The fourth and final session in this years Fish Waste for Profit conference saw six presenters give a five minute presentation on their current projects, which ranged from organic fertilizers to fish oils from herring and mackerel.

The presenters and their topics on the day included:

  • Collagen and chitin from marine invasive species and aquaculture cleaner fish - Runar G. Solstad, PhD, Nofima
  • From fish waste to energy and organic fertilizer - novel and proven technology - Dr. Arne Hj. Knap - Sterner
  • High value special products towards commercialisation - Joakko Hiidenhovi - Senior Scientist, Natural Resource Institute, Finland
  • N-Atlantic pelagic fish oils originated from Herring and Mackerel - The new exiting Natural fish oil source in times shortage - Snorri Hreggvi Osson, CEO, Margildi
  • The Journey to 100% Utilisation - Erla Ósk Pétursdóttir, Managing, Director, Marine Collagen ehf

Once all projects had been presented the panel came together to discuss what they could do going forward as a collective to accelerate the progress being made.