Production of black soldier fly (hermetia illucens) larvae (bsfl) has emerged over the last several years as an efficient means to convert various kinds of organic materials into products including…

Production of black soldier fly (hermetia illucens) larvae (bsfl) has emerged over the last several years as an efficient means to convert various kinds of organic materials into products including meals and oils for feeding to animals. Seafood processing wastes, which currently represent a costly liability to seafood processors, may be optimized as a suitable substrate for production of bsfl to yield products with nutritional characteristics similar to fishmeal and fish oil, both of which are often produced from fully exploited and highly regulated capture forage fisheries. This proposal aims to develop substrates that efficiently use seafood processing wastes for production of bsfl while optimizing the composition of the resulting products for aquatic animals. Then, the most promising bsfl products will be evaluated as potential substitutes for fishmeal and fish oil in nutritional assessments (comparative feeding trials and digestibility determinations) using juvenile red drum (sciae