Aquaculture Feed Market Report 2026

Aquaculture Feed Market Overview

• Aquaculture Feed market size has reached to $66.17 billion in 2025 • Expected to grow to $94.87 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.6% • Growth Driver: Rising Aquaculture Production Drives Growth In The Aquaculture Feed Market • Market Trend: Strategic Partnership To Launch Specialized Feed Range • Asia-Pacific was the largest region in 2025.

What Is Covered Under Aquaculture Feed Market?

Aquaculture feed refers to the food provided to aquatic species in a controlled environment to ensure their growth, health, and productivity. Aquaculture feed's objective is to provide dietary requirements for the species to maintain a highly effective natural immune system and breeding. The main types of aquaculture feed products are pellets, extruded, powdered, and liquid. Pellets refer to a food or medicine that has a typically tiny, cylindrical, rounded, or spherical body. The various types of ingredients are soybeans, corn, fishmeal, fish oil, additives, and others. These are used to feed several types of species, including carp, marine shrimp, tilapia, catfish, marine fish, salmon, freshwater (FW) crustaceans, trout, and others, which are sold through various distribution channels, including store-based and online, for commercial and household users.

What Is The Aquaculture Feed Market Growth Forecast?

The aquaculture feed market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $94.87 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.6%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increasing focus on sustainable aquaculture practices, rising demand for plant-based and insect-based feed ingredients, expansion of precision feeding techniques, growing investments in aquaculture nutrition research, increasing adoption of digital feed management systems. Major trends in the forecast period include increasing adoption of nutritionally balanced aquafeed formulations, rising use of alternative protein ingredients, growing demand for species-specific feed solutions, expansion of high-efficiency extruded feed products, enhanced focus on feed digestibility and conversion rates.

Global Aquaculture Feed Market Segmentation

1) By Product Type: Pellets, Extruded, Powdered, Liquid 2) By Ingredient Type: Soybean, Corn, Fishmeal, Fish Oil, Additives, Other Ingredients 3) By Species Type: Carp, Marine Shrimps, Tilapias, Catfishes, Marine Fishes, Salmons, Freshwater (FW) Crustaceans, Trouts, Other Species 4) By End User: Commercial, Household Subsegments: 1) By Pellets: Floating Pellets, Sinking Pellets 2) By Extruded: High-Energy Extruded Feed, Low-Energy Extruded Feed 3) By Powdered: Fine Powder, Coarse Powder 4) By Liquid: Nutrient Solutions, Flavor Enhancers

What Is The Driver Of The Aquaculture Feed Market?

Increasing aquaculture production is expected to propel the growth of the aquaculture feed market going forward. Aquaculture production refers to the cultivation of aquatic organisms, such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae, and other organisms of value, under controlled or semi-natural conditions. Aquaculture feed plays a crucial role in aquaculture production by providing essential nutrients to farmed aquatic organisms, such as fish, crustaceans, and mollusks, to support their growth and development. For instance, in March 2024, according to Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry (DAFF), an Australia-based government department, aquaculture production is forecast to rise in 2023−24 by 0.5% to $3.56 billion and total production volume is expected to reach 296,000 metric tons by 2024–25, a 1% increase from 2022–23. Therefore, increasing aquaculture production is driving the growth of the aquaculture feed industry.

What Is The Driver Of The Aquaculture Feed Market?

Increasing aquaculture production is expected to propel the growth of the aquaculture feed market going forward. Aquaculture production refers to the cultivation of aquatic organisms, such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae, and other organisms of value, under controlled or semi-natural conditions. Aquaculture feed plays a crucial role in aquaculture production by providing essential nutrients to farmed aquatic organisms, such as fish, crustaceans, and mollusks, to support their growth and development. For instance, in March 2024, according to Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry (DAFF), an Australia-based government department, aquaculture production is forecast to rise in 2023−24 by 0.5% to $3.56 billion and total production volume is expected to reach 296,000 metric tons by 2024–25, a 1% increase from 2022–23. Therefore, increasing aquaculture production is driving the growth of the aquaculture feed industry.

Global Aquaculture Feed Market Trends and Insights

Major companies operating in the aquaculture feed market are adopting strategic partnerships to develop a new range of feed products to gain a competitive edge in the market. Such collaborations involve alliances between feed manufacturers, industry experts, research organizations, and other stakeholders to enhance the development, production, and distribution of aquaculture feeds. For instance, in May 2023, Aller Aqua, a Denmark-based producer of fish feed, partnered with VDS NV, a Belgium-based producer of animal feed specialties, to launch a range of feed products that are specifically designed for use in shrimp RAS (Recirculating Aquaculture System) farms. These land-based systems are used to allow for the production of high-quality, fresh shrimp products with short distances to market. The new feed products provide rapid feed availability and high feed performance. This could lead to an increase in the productivity and profitability of shrimp farming operations.

What Are Latest Mergers And Acquisitions In The Aquaculture Feed Market?

In October 2025, Royal De Heus, a Netherlands-based animal nutrition company, acquired CJ Feed & Care for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, Royal De Heus aims to strengthen its market presence across Asia and enhance its distribution and production capabilities in the regional animal feed sector. CJ Feed & Care is a South Korea-based provider of animal feed and livestock nutrition services.

Regional Outlook

Asia-Pacific was the largest region in the Aquaculture feed market in 2025. The regions covered in this market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa. The countries covered in this market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Italy, Spain, Canada

What Defines the Aquaculture Feed Market?

The aquaculture feed market consists of sales of wet feeds, moist feeds, dry feeds, larval feeds, and wet feeds. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

How is Market Value Defined and Measured?

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified). The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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