Cerri Roberto
Title: Novel ingredients and underexploited feed resources to improve sustainability of farmed fish species: growth, quality, health and food safety issues – SUSHIN (SUstainable fiSH feeds Innovative ingredients)
Supervisor: Prof. Emilio Tibaldi
Aquaculture industry is the fastest growing food production industry world-wide, but the steady decline in catches of wild fish and the increased demands for livestock and aquaculture feeds have resulted in a rapid decrease in availability of fish meal and fish oil and their concurrent price increase, these limit the development of carnivorous fish farms.
Over the past several years, intense focus has been trained upon the reduction or elimination of fish meal protein in aquafeeds, especially those designed for high-level marine carnivores, as gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) and European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax), two of the most common species of fish farmed in Mediterranean sea. This is due to the need to make aquaculture industry sustainable, in particular to contrast overfishing and high cost of fish meal and fish oil.
The project is funded by Ager 2.
The aim is to investigate how new ingredients and new diets affect fish growth, digestibility, fish meal quality and healthy, that can be used a new fish feeds environmentally and economically sustainable.
Biography and Contacts
Roberto Cerri was born in 1987 in Alghero (SS), Italy. In 2012 he obtained his bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Marine Productions at the University of Sassari, then, in 2014, his master’s degree in Marine Biology (curriculum of Aquaculture) at the University of Padova. After he worked in some research companies and in same fish farms. In November 2016 he moved in Scotland for six-months internship at the University of Stirling. In November 2017 he started a doctoral course by the PhD school of “Agriculture Science and Biotechnology” at the University of Udine.