	US 11,903,964 B2
	Feces binder in feed for fish
Dominic Andre Nanton, Sandnes (NO); Peter Bjorn Rugroden, Otsego, MN (US); Kari Juhani Ruohonen, Turku (FI); Marc Turano, Wilmington, NC (US); and Terje Utne, Stavanger (NO)
Assigned to CAN TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Wayzata, MN (US)
Filed by CAN TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Wayzata, MN (US)
Filed on Aug. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/818,073.
Application 17/818,073 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2022/070725, filed on Feb. 18, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/158,772, filed on Mar. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/151,269, filed on Feb. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0263823 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. A61K 31/736 (2006.01); A23K 20/147 (2016.01); A23K 20/163 (2016.01); A23K 50/80 (2016.01); A23K 10/30 (2016.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01)

CPC A61K 31/736 (2013.01) [A23K 10/30 (2016.05); A23K 20/147 (2016.05); A23K 20/163 (2016.05); A23K 50/80 (2016.05); A61K 9/0056 (2013.01)]

22 Claims

1. A method for reducing suspended solids in rearing water of a fish farm, the method comprising feeding to a fish in the fish farm an extruded, pressed, or particulate fish feed comprising between about 0.2% to about 2.0% by weight of a feces binder selected from at least one of xanthan gum or a galactomannan polysaccharide comprising an average mannose to galactose ratio of 3:1 to 5:1, wherein suspended solids in the rearing water are reduced relative to the suspended solids in the rearing water of a fish fed a feed without the feces binder.