Having made a significant breakthrough in the survival rate of their oysters, Ostrea Aquaculture is looking to raise up to €3.7 million to scale up production to 100 million spat a year – both for their own on-growing and to help meet the rising demand from ha…
Kelp is one of the fastest growing organisms on the planet; some species can grow up to two feet per day. The business of farming it in North America has the potential to grow at an equivalently staggering rate. In fact, in Maine it already has.
Following successful feed trials with the world’s largest salmon producer, Rare Earth Global believes that the stage is set for hemp to become a mainstream – and considerably more sustainable – alternative to soy in aquafeeds.
Anthony Bellafiore, investment manager at Katapult Ocean, one of Europe’s leading aquaculture and bluetech VCs, believes that it’s too soon to write off the West's fledgling seaweed sector.
Umami Bioworks is bucking the negative trends that hit the cell-cultivated meat and seafood sectors – landing significant deals with some of the biggest players in the seafood and pet food worlds.
Jonah van Beijnen explores the RAS-mania that grips the global aquaculture industry, along with the reasons behind the variable performance of these systems.
Africa’s largest, vertically integrated tilapia farmers deserve to attract more investment, but financiers should look at other options on the continent too, argues Anton Immink, CEO of ThinkAqua.
Francisco Murillo is perplexed by the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on failing RAS projects, when a fraction of the funding could help proven businesses like Tropo Farms produce tens of thousands more tonnes of tilapia a year.
