Startups

As the aquaculture industry expands, it needs every feed option – both conventional and alternative – at its disposal. But what steps can the sector take to bring sustainable feed ingredients online?

Oceano Fresco hopes that its €6.1 million series B funding will bring it closer to producing European clam species at scale.

Dynaspace*, the Norwegian startup which aims to deliver valuable insights to the aquaculture industry by using satellite technology, has expanded its team.

Indonesian shrimp farmers now have access to – and would be wise to implement – a new range of easy, fast and precise water quality management systems.

Akua, which produces kelp-based products, including burgers, has raised a $3.2 million seed round this week.

The UK’s first redclaw crayfish farm – operating in an indoor recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) – is due to open shortly in Dorset, as Elena Piana, founder of Noola Redclaw, explains.

Ten female entrepreneurs have joined Hatch's inaugural Women in Aquaculture Innovation Studio, which was launched in partnership with Conservation International this month.

IntegraSEE’s CEO, Lawrence Taylor, explains how monitoring the behaviour of a handful of mussels in a MarineCanary unit can alert aquaculture operators to water quality issues, including pollution, pathogens and temperat…

SPACE-F, the global FoodTech startup incubator and accelerator programme, headquartered in Bangkok, is inviting applications for Batch III of its FoodTech program.

Indonesian aquatech startup DELOS , which has created software that is able to accurately forecast and recommend actions to increase shrimp farm profitability and productivity, has raised a seed funding round.

Plans to produce 15,000 tonnes of seriola (Seriola dumerili) six miles off the Spanish coast have recently been unveiled.

Europe’s growing band of seaweed producers could be generating revenues of €2.7 billion and providing 85,000 jobs by 2030.

Food tech startup Aqua Cultured Foods announced today it has closed an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round of $2.1 million, one of the largest pre-seed rounds for companies using fermentation for alt-proteins.

Solar Oysters’ novel automated aquaculture platform has been stocked with a fresh batch of 300,000 spat and launched into Baltimore Harbor.

Bluegrove, formerly known as CageEye, has been awarded €3.5 million (NOK 35 million) from the EU’s Eruopean Innovation Council (EIC) to further develop and commercialise its Welfare Shield technology.

Plans by NewSeas to develop a 10,000 tonne capacity barramundi farm in northern Bali have been given fresh momentum, after the company signed an MoU with Skretting.

The Norwegian aquatech startup OptoScale has raised $4.1 million to expand the use of its real-time fish farm monitoring system into new geographies.

Loch Long Salmon (LLS) has submitted a planning application to develop Scotland’s first semi-closed fish farm.

Aquaculture researchers, companies and startups are being invited to submit proposals for the third round of the UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF).