• Hinter Symposium on Nutrition & Feed Technology of Fish & Shellfish was organized by Guangzhou Hinter Biotechnology Co., Ltd and Guangdong Haid Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Research Center, which focus on the nutrition and feed technology of aquatic animals and was held every year. The special report highlights the outstanding technology, closes to practice, focus on the application, which is a good opportunity promote communication for the feed production enterprise.


    Hinter symposium has been inherited the theme 'encouraging communication and promoting progress of the feed industry' and persisted on technology communication, which is not only a window of Hinter but also a sincere action of customer feedback. It has become an important platform for communication of aquaculture feed industry peers and highly praised by the peers, whose size and influence is expanding every year.


    Hinter has held 26 symposia and shared 175 reports, which attracted more than 10000 industry friends to attend for consecutive 8 years since 2005.

    2009’Hinter Guangzhou Symposium

    Meeting Time:November 23-25, 2009

    Meeting Place:Guangdong Province

    Meeting Iinvited:Invitation

    Meeting Session:Highlights

    Selection of key raw materials and formulation practice for several major carps

    Dr. Xueqiao Qian    【Guangdong Haid Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Research Center】

    Carp as one of the special aquaculture species in China, its aquaculture are range from south to north and east to west. Research center of Haid have devoted to carp nutrition research for many years and has achieved some important results through production practice. In this report, Dr. Xueqiao Qian will make a detail exposition about how to select key raw materials and make formulation practice for several major carps and list some of the important research results here.

    Quality control and international news of oils in aquafeed

    Dr. Peng Li    【National Renderers Association, INC】

    Fish oil, soybean oil, lecithin, lard oil, mixed oil... there are so many kinds of oils for aquatic feed in the market, which bring great confusion for quality control. Does the detection of acid value, peroxide value can stand for the fresh index? Whether the fatty acid must be detected or not? What are the differences of quality control methods for different oils? Are there any other simple and effective measures or indicators for quality control? The Lecturer will give answers to these questions and bring new information of oil quality control with the international perspective.

    Quality control and usage of fishmeal in aquafeed

    Dr. Yong Yang    【Guangzhou Hinter Biotechnology Co., Ltd.】

    Fishmeal is an important raw material in aquafeed. In recent years, there are more and more fishmeal brands imported into China. But it seems that the more famous fishmeal, the easier fake production. And fake fishmeal emerges in an endless stream. How to identify the fishmeal quality? How to make the classification of fishmeal and use it? With rich experience in this field, Dr. Yong Yang will combine the data he has collected with fishmeal quality control cases, which hope to provide the most practical reference for the quality control and usage of fishmeal.

    American aquafeed quality determination method and its significance

    Dr. Zongjia Cheng    【Feed processing Ph.D., Feed Technical Manager of the American Soybean Association's Beijing Office】

    Questionnaire of Hinter seminar shows that technique, appearance and quality problem of aquatic feed is a common case in feed enterprises. Is to improve the production process or detection methods for feed quality? Is there any advanced method in foreign country? Dr. Zongjia Cheng will make a detail exposition on American aquafeed quality determination method and its significance so as to obtain a lot of useful reference.

    Causes analysis and solutions of feed fluctuant quality

    Dr. Jun Gao    【Evonik Degussa (China) Co., Ltd.】

    Dietary nutrient variation mainly due to nutrient variation of raw materials and production process. Among all the nutrients, amino acid plays a most important role in the products quality. In fact, the amino acid variation of feed raw materials is very complex. Crude protein determination method cannot reflect amino acid variation accurately while near infrared technology is an accurate and timely determination for raw material variation. Combine near infrared technology with amino acid analysis tool to analyze changes of amino acid, which can be a good way to quality control and cost savings. Besides, weighing and mixing process of nutrient also play an important role in variation. The lecturer will share causes analysis and solutions of feed quality fluctuation in this report.

    Quality control and application of mildew proof additive

    Dr. Zhenxiong Qi    【Guangdong Haid Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Research Center】

    Why moldy and oxidized feed is appeared after adding mildew proof additive. Is due to lack of the content or the bad quality of products? Feed enterprises focus on quality control of bulk raw materials while ignore mildew proof additive. After hearing this special report, you'll find out that mildew proof additive plays an important role on quality control.

    Fine management enhance benefits of feed enterprise

    Dr. Guozhi Bian    【Guangdong Haid Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Research Center】

    As the economic crisis, feed enterprises try to explore the internal potential benefits through fine management. Quality control is one of the points, but it’s not an easy job. In this report, Dr. Bian will share the experience and lessons of Haid in quality control in his report, which hope to provide reference for the guests.

    Optimization selection of raw material for aquafeed

    Dr. Song Zhang    【Guangzhou Hinter Biotechnology Co., Ltd.】

    We usually know about the material by the external information. But we cannot fully and truly grasp the quality of raw materials only through the material behind the external information. In this report, the Lecturer will make a visual process to show how to optimize the raw material of aquatic feed and further explore its influencing factors.

    The new index of quality control for aquafeed raw material and its significance

    Fen He    【Technical manager of Guangzhou Hinter Biotechnology Co., Ltd.】

    The new index of quality control for aquafeed raw material includes two meanings. One is the new index which is less developed, more practical, higher precision and easily satisfied detection conditions, the other is to explore the function of conventional eight indexes on the raw material quality control. The lecturer will make an introduction to these new indexes, which is useful to quality control of raw materials for aquatic feed enterprises.

    Effect expression and the key points of quality control of duck feed

    Dr. Jiyu Guo    【Guangdong Haid Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Research Center】

    As business growth, many aquafeed enterprises starts to produce poultry feed. It is easy to control the duck feed quality as long as grasp the critical point control of raw material selection, formulation technology and production process. But perfect products may result in a bad effect expression in the market. With rich practical experience in this field, the lecturer will share his experience of effect expression and the key points of quality control for duck feed.

    Construction and operation of QA of feed enterprises

    Yibin Yuan    【QA manager of Guangdong Haid Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Research Center】

    In recent years, the ups and downs prices of raw material and continual quality safety incidents of feed indicate that quality control is an important and emergency project for feed products. Now a consensus is basically formed in aquatic industry, such as ‘Quality is the life of enterprise’,‘no quality no tomorrow’. However, many enterprises just focus on empty talk without related action. Some problems are found in the QA department when carry out the quality management, such as unclear authority and work process, unharmonious relationship among departments, etc., which affected the QA work effectively. How to establish the quality management system? How does it work? With rich management experience in this field, the lecturer will share in this report.

    Quality control of rapeseed meal and its application in aquafeed

    Xin Wang    【Technology Manager of Guangzhou Hinter Biotechnology Co., Ltd.】

    As one of the most commonly used raw material in aquafeed, rapeseed is known by everyone. But the understanding of rapeseed in whole industry is not as deep as we thought before. What’s the effect on rapeseed quality with different areas, different varieties and different processing technology? How to distinguish various rapeseeds? What are the notes when rapeseed used in different aquatic feed? How to evaluate the rapeseed value? A large number of detailed first-hand data are listed in this report. Let’s look forward to the new understanding of quality control of rapeseed.

  • Hinter Symposium on Nutrition & Feed Technology of Fish & Shellfish was organized by Guangzhou Hinter Biotechnology Co., Ltd and Guangdong Haid Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Research Center, which focus on the nutrition and feed technology of aquatic animals and was held every year. The special report highlights the outstanding technology, closes to practice, focus on the application, which is a good opportunity promote communication for the feed production enterprise.


    Hinter symposium has been inherited the theme 'encouraging communication and promoting progress of the feed industry' and persisted on technology communication, which is not only a window of Hinter but also a sincere action of customer feedback. It has become an important platform for communication of aquaculture feed industry peers and highly praised by the peers, whose size and influence is expanding every year.


    Hinter has held 26 symposia and shared 175 reports, which attracted more than 10000 industry friends to attend for consecutive 8 years since 2005.

    2009’Hinter Hangzhou Symposium

    Meeting Time:August 17, 2007

    Meeting Place:Zhejiang Province

    Meeting Iinvited:Invitation

    Meeting Session:Highlights

    My 60 years in Fish Nutrition

    John E. Halver    【Ph.D., NAS, MTA School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences University of Washington Seattle, WA.USA】

    As predecessor in aquaculture sector, Professor John E. Halver will not only trace the journey of the past sixty years, but also show some important results for us in this report. With science and technology developing rapidly, how to deal with some development difficulties for scientific research institution and feed enterprises at the present stage? Give up easily? Or learn from John E. professor Halver who finds his way and creates a miracle? It’s meaningful to further think, explore and develop.

    Research and progress of aquaculture immunity and development of new feed additives

    Professor Delbert M.    【Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition Texas A&M Uni】

    As the director of “Aquaculture”, Professor Delbert M. Gatlin III showed his ingenuity in understanding aquatic animal nutrition. His report will make a difference as he will no longer present the pure nutrition theory to the listener, but a combination of the sophisticated experimental design and visual data and image. Professor Delbert M. Gatlin III will give us some new information of international new feed additive and the future development trend. What a great surprise!

    Application of animal products in aquaculture feed

    Professor Delbert M.    【Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition Texas A&M Uni】

    Protein material is an unabated topic in aquatic nutrition. In this report, present pattern of protein material under the international situation was analyzed by Professor Delbert M. Gatlin. Advantages and disadvantages of different raw materials from the microscopic point will be presented in his report. With the combination of point and face, he will bring more detailed protein material information for all of us.

    Optimization and selection of raw materials in aquatic feed formulation

    Dr. Song Zhang    【Guangzhou Hinter Biotechnology Co., Ltd.】

    Managing feed is indeed managing raw material. On the one hand, the price of raw material is extremely high; on the other hand, competition is very fierce. In order to save the cost and the stable benefit of enterprise, feed enterprises tend to use low-grade raw materials. But is it the only way to solve this issue? With valuable experience in the raw materials market, the lecturer will give a different answer. At the same time, some constructive countermeasures will keep things in perspective.

    New developments in fish amino acid nutrition: towards functional aquafeeds

    Dr. Peng Li    【[National Renderers Association, INC】

    When it comes to amino acid, two essential amino acids -- lysine and methionine were firstly thought of by people. In fact, different amino acids have its important physiological functions in different aquatic animal nutrition. Based on the well knowledge of the physiological functions of various amino acids, what are the new challenges of using amino acid in the aquatic animal feed? Let’s listen to the latest comprehensive information in the study of amino acid nutrition from Dr. Li Peng.

    Stress and nutrition solution of aquatic animal

    Dr. Mingyan Huai    【Beijing Aoteqi Biologicals Co., Ltd.】

    Aquatic animal stress is not unfamiliar to all of us. Too high farming density, unreasonable culture model, sudden change of weather and a series of conditions may cause aquatic animal stress. When faced with so many problems, the traditional idea is to produce a stable environment for animal. But it is difficult to control the case in the current situation. With rich practical experience, Dr. Mingyan Huai will bring a creative solution to this issue.

    Problems and solutions of replacement of fishmeal with cost-effective protein ingredients

    Dr. Yan Wang    【Professor of College of Animal Sciences, ZheJiang University】

    In the face of the tense fishmeal situation, more and more formulators start to adopt using some cheaper protein material to substitute fishmeal in diet. Under this situation, how to choose cheap protein material for enterprises? How to solve the problems about rational addition of cheap protein material? How to solve palatability, growth and a series of problems caused by cheap protein material? Let’s listen to Professor Wang Yan’s opinion.