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Grieg Seafood 21 35 34% Salmon use the energy from fodder twice as effectively as poultry Energy effcency and 70% more effectively than pork. an important reason that fsh 30 require less feed than land animals is that salmon do not use energy Compared with the production to keep a stable body temperature. in addition, salmon can produce of other livestock that are fed 25 several thousand spawn per fsh and can be sustained on a few concentration-based diets, 20 20% parent couples; whereas land animals like pigs and cattle reproduce salmon farming is extremely 17% in modest quantities. Finally, salmon are 65% muscle, giving more effcient in terms of the 15 utilization of energy and meat than other farmed animals; and excess waste from butchering protein in the feed. is reused for feed production. 10 The graph shows digestable 5 Salmon Chicken Pigs energy. Source: Bellona.org 0