Startups

After five years of trial and error, Maine scallop farming startup Vertical Bay could be on the cusp of a significant breakthrough – with plans to increase production by up to fourfold next year.

Silvain Charbonneau, Seaducer’s COO, believes that smart, scalable innovations will help reinvigorate the oyster farming industry and attract a new generation of growers – ensuring the sector remains resilient in the face of climate and labour challenges.

Despite past setbacks, Interest from former customers has persuaded Matilda Olstorpe, Sweden’s biofloc shrimp pioneer, to set up a new and bigger farm.

Tristan Macquet believes that bringing new techniques into France’s oyster farming industry will bring new blood into the sector – helping to ensure it’s alive, well and supporting coastal communities for at least another generation. 

Bacteriophages are poised to revolutionise aquaculture by significantly reducing mortality rates and antibiotic use, according to Dr Aristobulo Loaiza, CEO of Hedros Bio. 

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.

Isaac Berzin, founder and CTO of Vaxa Technologies, explains how an innovative microalgae farming technique could make his vision for carbon neutral farmed salmon a reality.

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. 

AlgiSys BioSciences, which has developed a proprietary strain of microalgae for aquafeeds that’s rich in EPA omega-3 and alternative protein, is currently looking to raise $5 million to enable commercial-scale production.

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. 

Briana Warner, who recently surprised the seaweed world by resigning as CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms, tells The Fish Site what’s next for the company, where she’s heading next and what the future is for investments into blue foods. 

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.

Shrimp farming in Vietnam is challenged by both low profitability and environmental degradation. CK, founder of Rongbient, wants to improve both sides of this equation with the help of a new model that uses seaweeds as a biofilter, a feed ingredient and as an …

For the past decade eFishery has been one of the rising stars in the aquaculture industry and a poster boy for how to use tech to sustainably transform aquaculture in developing countries. This was, of course, until recent allegations of serious misreporting a…

SeaCrop plans to deploy curtains of electrostatic fibres to collect excess phytoplankton from parts of the ocean that have been negatively impacted by anthropogenic eutrophication – not only improving ocean health but also producing a valuable feed ingredient.…