Dr. Margaret Hegwood

The sheer volume of animal feed produced annually, roughly 1.44 billion metric tons in 2025, has important implications for food systems' sustainability and resilience, underscoring the urgent need for feed innovation. Livestock and aquaculture account for over 90% of global compound feed production and rely heavily on high-volume, low-cost commodity ingredients, placing strong demands on ingredient production scale and price. In contrast, pet food accounts for just under 3% of global...

Insights from ISFNF 2026 explore how fish nutrition is shaping the future of aquafeed innovation, from novel ingredients such as algal oil and single-cell proteins to circular feed inputs, sustainability pressures, feeding technology, and the partnerships needed to scale sustainable aquaculture.

Explore why scaling single-cell protein production remains one of the biggest barriers to feed innovation. Our latest blog examines the capital, infrastructure, and financing challenges shaping the future of SCPs in aquafeed, and what it will take to move the industry beyond the “missing middle.”