Scientists at Nofima are now working on reducing production costs and adapting the recipe for large-scale production.

Correct feed is, they say, decisive for the farming of sea urchins.

Many of the world's wild sea urchin stocks are over fished and poorer access to sea urchin roe on the market has led to increased interest in farming.

Innovative Norwegian companies are among those that have started farming sea urchins.

Scientists at Nofima (formerly Fiskeriforskning) have developed a dry feed for sea urchins, which has won several feed trials. The good results have led to major demand from sea urchin farmers in a host of countries.

The prototype for the successful feed is now being utilised in the entire Norwegian sea urchin industry, both wild-captured and farmed sea urchins.

Knowledge from this project will also be useful for solving research problems concerning production of feed for king crabs and other types of dry feed for shellfish, say the scientists.

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