We like to encourage all new ingredient companies to do the following:  First, you should conduct a nutritional analysis on the ingredient.  That nutritional analysis, and price point will be key to determining the market potential for the ingredient.   

Then, armed with that information, to break into the aquafeed industry, we recommend that you conduct experiments to determine the actual efficacy of your ingredient, working with fish nutritionists to evaluate its potential for aquafeed in an  Ingredient Evaluation Process outlined here.  We encourage you to work with credible research organizations during the ingredient evaluation process, to make it more possible that feed companies will accept the results, and perhaps even discuss with them in advance, the types of studies that you need to run that would assist in their evaluation.

If the ingredient is promising, then you can bring the information you have yielded from the Ingredient Evaluation Process with you to Feed companies, who can then discuss replacement.