Startups

The unique project is coordinated from the Canary Islands and links offshore wind and energy production to aquaculture on floating platforms.

Applications are open for a $170,000 competition that aims to challenge companies to create innovations that increase the use and value of soybean meal in existing markets, including the aquafeed sector.

Australian aquatech startup Oceanfarmr* – formerly known as SmartOysters – has received AU$1.45 million in investment funds from Katapult VC, allowing the firm to ramp up its international growth and expand their “farm-t…

Steakholder Foods, has announced that it has filed a provisional US patent application based on the formation of layers of crosslinked tissue, to achieve the characteristic tender flakiness of cooked fish.

How a Ukrainian aquaculture entrepreneur is looking to revive her fish leather startup through a paid internship with the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS).

Aquaconnect has earned an ISO 27001 for Information Security Management, indicating that the firm is fully equipped to protect and safeguard data from its farmer network, retailers, finance partners and seafood buyers.

Cermaq has started using several sensors from Norway’s OptoScale and sees the technology as a useful tool for optimising their production.

The Port of San Diego is adding five years onto its agreement with Sunken Seaweed LLC, a local startup exploring the feasibility and benefits of seaweed and shellfish farming in San Diego Bay.

Shrimpbox creator Atarraya is partnering with microbiome startup BiomEdit to learn more about the microbial ecosystems in biofloc production and research new approaches to shrimp farming.

More first movers are needed to unlock a market that could have a potentially pivotal impact on the future of key fed aquaculture sectors such as salmon farming*.

Calysseo and Food Caravan are in advanced discussions with partners in Saudi Arabia to bring an alternative protein production site that’s five times larger than the FeedKind fermenter in China to the kingdom.

LocalCoho, which produces Coho salmon in a land-based system in upstate New York, has received multi-million dollar funding from the prominent seafood entrepreneurs Rodger May and Per Heggelund.

Eleven female-led startups have just embarked on the inaugural Women in Ocean Food Innovation Studio, which takes place in Bali over the next fortnight.

Aquaponics Iberia, a Portuguese startup which aims to grow fish and greens in an integrated system, is looking to raise €4.5 million, to establish an urban farm.

International experts came to the University of Maine for the third annual Recirculating Aquaculture Salmon Network (RAS-N) and the first-ever Sustainable Aquaculture Systems Supporting Salmon (SAS2) conference.

In three years Ireland's Pure Ocean Algae has domesticated a wild dulse, a red seaweed species, and created a fully-fledged macroalgae value chain. The Fish Site sat down with founder Michael O'Neill to learn mo…

Forsea Foods has secured $5.2 million to expand its cultivated eel offering and develop organoid technology.

Six blue tech startups that focus on improving ocean health, increasing coastal resilience and developing new technology for the aquaculture sector have been tapped to join the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf B…

Grobest Group has entered a partnership with AquaEasy that hopes to make Vietnam’s shrimp industry more sustainable, productive and profitable by adopting artificial intelligence (AI).

Oceanfarmr*, the new name for SmartOysters, is looking to apply its technology across the wider aquaculture sector – initially targeting mussel and seaweed producers – and has also launched a new finance tool for farmers…