[Excerpt] Introduction
The replacement of fishmeal by plant ingredients in aquafeeds imposed new formulation strategies to overcome some
nutritional restrictions associated with these alternative ingredients. Thus, supplementation of plant-based diets with feed
additives, as exogenous enzymes and antioxidants compounds, has recently attracted increasing interest to improve feed
utilization and to promote animal health. Solid state fermentation (SSF) of agro-industrial wastes has a high potential for the
production of these additives, being a practical, economical, and environmentally-friendly process. Olive mill and winery
wastes have valuable compounds that may be valorized thought SSF and that may be used as additives for aquafeeds. This
study was conducted to optimize the production of non-starch carbohydrases through the SSF of the olive mill and winery
wastes and to test its efficacy to improve the release of pentoses during digestion of a plant-based diet in European seabass.[...]Work supported by FCT PhD grant SFRH/BD/131219/2017, SFRH/BDP/114942/2016, IJFCT-POCI 01-0145-FEDER-030377 and MAR-02.01.01-FEAMP-0111info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
