Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Vender shall be HAACP and BAP (Best Aquaculture Practices) certified; 2. All fish food is to be packaged in moisture proof containers (heat sealed poly bags only and delivered to New Hampshire facilities without intermediate storage or handling or vendor can use a food grade intermediary warehouse).; 3. Purchaser will order truckload or LTL quantities to New Hampshire to the following destinations: A. Powder Mill Hatchery, New Durham, NH; B. Berlin Hatchery, Berlin, NH; C. Milford Hatchery, Milford, NH; D. New Hampton Hatchery, New Hampton, NH; E. Warren Hatchery, Warren, NH; F. Nashua National Fish Hatchery, Nashua, NH; 4. Feed prices (FOB New Hampshire) are to be quoted for the period 1 July 2022 through 30 June 2023. Quotation is included in price per pound for each product type, along with the vendor's product identification code.; 5. Payments will be made within 30 days upon delivery. Deliveries may be LTL or full truck load and must be made within 2 weeks of ordering.; 6. All pelleted fish food is to be extruded.; 7. No Bovine meat meal or bovine blood meal are to be incorporated in any feed type.; 8. In starter feeds, a minimum of 65% of the protein for all sinking feeds must be supplied by high quality fishmeal (<67% protein). In grower feeds, the rations may substitute non-ruminant protein sources for fish meal however the final formulation must be microbalancedtm to ensure nutritional and performance characteristics are not negatively impacted. Minimum inclusions of fishmeal will vary between species in grower diets due to differences in nutritional requirements for amino acids. Since a number of protein sources can successfully be used to obtain the desirable amino acid balance, feed companies who do not declare the minimum fishmeal content in grower diets should have daily records of raw material amino acid composition and protein digestibility.; 9. A minimum 50% of the lipid component for all feed types must be from fish oil. Contaminant concentrations are to be less than maximum levels expressed by the European Union.; Fish Oil: Dioxins and Furans TEQ < 6.0 ng/kg; PCBs TEQ < 14.0 ng/kg; Fish Feed: Dioxins and Furans TEQ < 2.25 ng/kg; PCBs TEQ < 3.5 ng/kg; 10. Feed types to be purchased: A. Bio-Vita Starter; B. Nutra-Olympic Fry; C. Bio-Trout; D. Bio-Brood Diet; E. Oncor Floating Grower Diet for trout
