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How a Japanese Factory Is Making Fish Feed from Insects
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in northern Japan where black soldier flies are reared and processed into high-protein feed for aquaculture. The episode reveals the specific numbers: each ton of dried larvae replaces 1.2 tons of wild-caught fish meal, and the facility processes 24 metric tons of insect biomass per day. They discuss the economics per kilogram versus fishmeal, the energy cost of indoor insect farming, and why a major salmon producer just signed a five-year offtake agreement. The hosts also touch on the regulatory shift in Japan's feed standards that made the business…
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