Company Bios
AgriProtein
AgriProtein is a world-leading nutrient recycling company which has commercialised black soldier fly technology to convert post-consumer food waste into sustainable complete protein for the aquaculture-feed industry, insect oil, and organic soil conditioner. With over 150 employees, AgriProtein has expanded globally, and has offices in the UK, US, Singapore, India, Korea, Belgium, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia. AgriProtein plans to break ground on five G-series factories by the end of 2019, each capable of recycling 90,000 tons per year of organic waste, and producing 5,000 tons of protein.
Aiim partners
Aiim provides milestones-based, long duration capital and hands-on technical assistance to help build high impact companies. They invest in the 'missing middle' where capital is scarce for innovative companies disrupting big markets. Aiim tackles the problem of climate change with a focus on oceans and the interdependencies of oceans with land, air, and energy systems.
Algae4All
Algae4All, LLC, a consulting company focused on algae biomass production, quality assurance, product development, regulatory guidance, management, project evaluation and education.
Aller Aqua
Aller Aqua is a family owned company with roots tracing far back. The current family has run the company since 1910, starting with a focus on animal feeds, and then moving to aquaculture as part of the early industrial development of this. We have produced fish feed since 1963, and this makes us one of the world’s most experienced fish feed producers, delivering some of the best products on the market, to our customers. The group has production facilities in Denmark, Poland, Germany, Egypt, Zambia, China and Serbia as well as subsidiaries in European, African and Asian countries. The group today produces more than 200,000 tons of feed per year and has 450+ employees of 30 nationalities.
Alltech Coppens
Alltech, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops and manufactures natural feed supplements that improve animal performance. It provides natural solutions, technical information, and support to various sectors of the animal nutrition industry. Alltech has had rapid growth through acquisitions. It has made 15 acquisitions globally since 2011 to broaden customer base and strengthen nutrition solutions. The company vision is to reach $10 billion soon from the existing near $3 billion.
Aquaculture Innovation
Aquaculture Innovation offers consultancy services through our international network of highly experienced experts covering all areas of aquaculture from innovative concept development through to practical fish husbandry. With research institutions in Europe, North America, Asia, South America and Australasia, Aquaculture Innovation can arrange collaborative projects including biological research, product development, and course development/delivery. Aquaculture Innovation is devoted to the development of innovative technologies based on microalgae for products that are healthy and environmentally friendly. The company is expanding their business operations – from Texas to Mexico to New Mexico – to ensure the best product that Qualitas Health can offer, and has farms as large as 100 acres, as well as R&D and extraction facilities.
Aquafeed Magazine
Established in 1998, Aquafeed is recognized as the leading provider of sector-specific business, scientific and technical news and information - through their website, quarterly magazine, newsletters and the Aquafeed Horizons Conferences.
Aqua-Spark
Aqua-Spark is a global investment fund based in Utrecht, Netherlands that makes investments in sustainable aquaculture businesses that generate investment returns, while creating positive social and environmental impact. The fund invests in small to medium enterprises that are working towards the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, shellfish and plants, in a way that does not harm the health of the planet.
Aquatic Feed Technologies
The mission is to assist in the development of a safe, sustainable, seafood supply working with companies with feed ingredient development and evaluation, regulatory approval and alternative feed development. This includes feeds ranging from larval, weaning or starter feeds through growout feeds and brood feeds.
Berkley®/Pure Fishing®
Started as a young boy’s (Berkley Bedell) dream tying flies in his bedroom to be sold in small magazine ads, the company has grown over the past 80 years through R&D innovations and brand acquisitions. Pure Fishing, the umbrella company of Berkley, is now one of the largest fishing tackle companies in the world. Corporate headquarters is located in Columbia, South Carolina with corporate offices in Japan, Australia, Europe, and Asia. Berkley specializes in fish research to drive its new product development. In the freshwater Fish Behavioral Lab located in Spirit Lake, Iowa there are up to 2,000 fish available for testing protocols at any one time.
BioMar
With revenue of approximately EUR 1.4 billion and 1,200,000 MT fish feed (2018), the BioMar group is one of the leading suppliers of high performance fish feed to the aquaculture industry for over 45 species (Top 5 species: Atlantic salmon, trout, shrimp, seabass and sea bream). Roughly one out of four farmed fish produced in Europe and Chile are fed with BioMar fish feed.
Blue Evolution
Blue Evolution farms seaweeds along the Pacific coast. They have created seaweed pastas and other seaweed-based items.
Bosar - Guangzhou Boss Group
Bosar Group is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to the research, development and production of safe feed, feed additives and food additives. At present, the Group owns four subsidiaries and one research institute engaged in animal nutrition research, development and production of safe and efficient feed additives based on synthetic technology and nanotechnology. Guangzhou Bosar is mainly engaged in fish, shrimp nutrition and healthy farming techniques, while Yunnan Bosar is mainly engaged in development and production of feed, food and industrial enzyme
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Calysta
Calysta is an innovator in sustainable products to improve worldwide food security. Calysta is developing and commercializing FeedKind® protein, a sustainable, traceable alternative feed ingredient for fish, livestock and pet nutritional products.
Cargill
Cargill is one of the largest global suppliers of aquafeed, focusing on three core species in 12 leading markets: salmon in Norway, Chile, Scotland and North America; tilapia in China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam; shrimp in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Ecuador, India and Mexico. In 2017, the company produced nearly 1.5 million tons of aquaculture feed.
Cellana
Cellana, a leading developer of algae-based bioproducts, uses the most productive plants on earth — marine microalgae — to photosynthetically produce its ReNew™ line of EPA Omega-3 oils, algae-based ink feedstock, and animal feed/food and biofuel feedstocks. Cellana’s patented ALDUO™ system enables economic, sustainable and consistent production of photosynthetic, non-GMO algae at industrial scale. Its Kona Demonstration Facility (KDF) on Hawaii’s Big Island, a 6-acre, state-of-the-art production and research facility, has produced over 11 tons of algae, which makes it one of the most prolific algae production facilities in the world.
Changing Tastes
Changing Tastes is a strategy, culinary and sustainability consultancy creating successful ventures and meaningful change in the food sector.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
We're Australia's national science research agency. At CSIRO, we solve the greatest challenges using innovative science and technology. At CSIRO, we shape the future. We do this by using science to solve real issues to unlock a better future for our community, our economy, our planet.
Conservation Aquaculture Research Team (CART)
The Conservation Aquaculture Research Team (CART) is a group of experts and analysts in ocean conservation, fisheries and aquaculture (i.e., aquatic farming) sciences. Motivated by our work from the SNAPP Sustainable Open-Ocean Aquaculture Working Group (2015-2017), CART is the next phase of using synthesis science to help guide the fastest growing food sector on the planet to work with, instead of against, the environment. With help from international and domestic partnerships in government, academia, non-governmental agencies, and industry, we want our science to align seafood production with conservation objectives across multiple scales and ecosystems.
Corbion
Corbion is a global market leader in algae ingredients, lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, and a leading company in emulsifiers, functional enzyme blends, minerals, and vitamins. Corbion is a leading producer of omega 3 rich algae for the aquaculture, pet and livestock industries. We are currently providing our omega 3 rich algae ingredient, AlgaPrime™ DHA, at scale into five aquatic farmed species across four continents. Our AlgaPrime™ DHA production facility, located in Brazil, embodies the principles of large scale sustainable production with low carbon, water and land use impact.
Dartmouth College
The faculty and students of Dartmouth’s Environmental Studies Program engage in research, scholarship, and creative work aimed at understanding and governing the complex relationships between society and the environment. Their work integrates concepts and methods from a variety of fields in the biophysical sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Research foci range from the forests and watersheds of Northern New England to the conservation challenges of Africa and the links between environmental and social change in the Arctic.
Dainichi Corporation
Dainichi Corp. specializes in the manufacture, import, and sales of aquaculture feeds; the sale of aquaculture mendicants and aquaculture equipment, and the manufacture and sale of fish and processed marine products. Dainichi sold 36,300 MT of feed related product and 10,500 MT of seafood related products with gross sales USD 197,000,000. Dainichi is Japan’s largest wholesaler of Red Sea Bream but also sells Yellowtail, Jack Mackerel, Flounder, Bluefin Tuna, Japanese Sea Bass, and Longtooth Grouper.
El Camino Legal
The lawyers at El Camino Legal help technology and media companies form, develop and grow in an organized and compliant manner. This includes corporate formation and governance, day-to-day and strategic contracting, and litigation. Their expertise includes, among other things, intellectual property licensing, sales and distribution, strategic alliances, privacy and information management, end user terms, and resolving disputes between companies.
Evergreen (Guangdong Evergreen Feed Industry Co., Ltd)
Guangdong Evergreen was founded in the early 1990s, with its headquarter located in southern China---Zhanjiang, Guangdong. It is a group company with a complete industrial chain, integrated with seedling breeding, feed production & marketing, micro ecological preparation, aquaculture, aquatic products processing and cold-chain logistics. Evergreen also invests in real estate, banks and ports. There are dozens of subsidiaries in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jilin and some Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia, etc. Evergreen produces 500,000-1,000,000 metric tons of aquafeed annually.
Evolutionary Mfg.
Evolutionary Mfg. is creating protein meals with custom nutrients enabling vegetarian clean-labeling for a variety of species. Their goal is to make food cheaper, healthier, and more ecologically friendly.
Fish 2.0
Fish 2.0 builds connections to spur growth, investment, and innovation in the sustainable seafood sector globally. Fish 2.0 competitors engage in a challenging but fun and interactive process to improve their business models and learn how to successfully approach investors. In turn, investors who participate in Fish 2.0 gain early access to new deals, co-investors, and insights into sustainable seafood trends and opportunities.
Fish First
Fish First is a cross-platform network media developed by Aquatic Frontier magazine. It integrates various media formats, content resources, technology platforms and communication channels, and strives to build a world-leading Chinese aquatic products comprehensive service organization.
Genoa Ventures
Genoa Ventures uniquely combines an appetite for technology-driven, “category-defying” opportunities in life sciences with the domain expertise and operational experience necessary to select and nurture the best bio-based companies early, before most other investors.
Geoffrey Moore Consulting—Chasm Institute
Chasm Institute’s work is based on best practices from Geoffrey Moore's high-tech business best-sellers: Crossing the Chasm, Escape Velocity, Inside the Tornado, and Living on the Fault Line plus learnings and pattern recognition from hundreds of engagements with client companies. Chasm Institute LLC helps high-tech companies to learn, apply, and institutionalize best practices in strategic market development. They work with management, marketing, engineering, and sales organizations in high-tech companies large and small, all over the world to help teams to think and act strategically.
Global Algae Innovations
Our innovations significantly lower energy consumption, increase production efficiency, and are a fraction of the cost of conventional algae production technologies. Our technology provides a strong return on investment for commercial production of algal protein for human consumption and animal feed, as well as high value products such as astaxanthin, pigments, and omega-3 oils. Our Hawaii facility is currently an R&D facility capable of up to 200 tons per year of production.
Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA)
At the Global Aquaculture Alliance, our mission is to promote responsible aquaculture practices through education, advocacy and demonstration. For over 20 years, we have demonstrated our commitment to feeding the world through responsible and sustainable aquaculture. We do this by providing resources to individuals and businesses worldwide who are associated with aquaculture and seafood. We improve production practices through our partnerships with countries, communities and companies, as well as online learning and groundbreaking journalism that boasts active readership in every country of the world.
GoalBlue
GoalBlue is a Chinese NGO established in 2016. GoalBlue aims to promote a sustainable lifestyle through providing guidance of responsible consumerism propensity, low carbon commute and healthy diet to eventually reduce GHG emission and protect the ocean. Apart from leading the change of consumers’ behavior, GoalBlue also works with influential business leaders to create more options of environmentally friendly products and services. Currently GoalBlue has three projects: ‘Smart Eating’, ‘Clean Commuting’ and ‘Blue Ocean’.
Green Plains Technologies/ EnviroFlight
Green Plains is an ethanol production, marketing and commodities company. EnviroFlight, LLC, a joint venture between Intrexon Corporation (NYSE: XON) and Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR), is a leader in sustainable animal and plant nutrition aiming to drive transformative change in the global food supply. EnviroFlight has an estimated annual revenue of 1.5 to 3.5 million dollars.
Green Stream Farms
Green Stream Farms owns and operates Qualitas Health's New Mexico production facility. They currently have 98 acres in cultivation for algae-based omega-3 product, and plan to expand to 300 cultivated acres in the next few years.
HAID Group
HAID Group Co. is a high-tech group enterprise that is committed to R&D and production of aquatic product, animal feed, seeding, animal healthcare product, scale breeding, and healthy food and it is on the list of National Top 10 Leading Feed Enterprises (China). HAID produces 2,000,000 metric tons of aquafeed annually.
Hatch.Blue
Hatch Blue looks for teams with innovative and scalable solutions that solve significant problems in the aquaculture industry in order to enable its long-term sustainability.
Heliae
In 2008, Heliae was founded on the premise that algae can provide significant value to society if commercialized with the appropriate technology. Since then, Heliae has assembled a dynamic team of innovators and integrators with diverse technical backgrounds, each with a passion for the development of disruptive technology, an approach grounded in sound science, and a keen eye toward the immense opportunity that algae presents.
Hemisphere Ventures
Hemisphere Ventures are founders, investors, operators and entrepreneurs with over 30 years combined in business expertise. We've started businesses from the ground up, built great teams, managed operations, experienced the tech boom and bust, and we understand how to grow a business.
Hexagon Bio
Hexagon Bio is a data-driven biotech based in the Bay Area. They mine massive amounts of genomic data from fungal genomes to identify novel drugs for diseases with unmet needs. Their expertise is in genomics, synthetic biology, chemistry and computation.
Pacific Biosciences
In an effort to push the boundaries of molecular biology, our founders invented a new way to study the synthesis and regulation of DNA, RNA, and proteins. Harnessing advances in biochemistry, optics, nanofabrication, and more, we developed Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing technology. We are passionate about developing high-quality, innovative technologies and systems that impact areas of critical importance, including the diagnosis and treatment of disease and efforts to improve the world’s food and energy supply. We believe that our tools will lead to advances that will create long-lasting benefits for the world and its future.
InnovaFeed
InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed, more specifically for aquaculture. InnovaFeed has the largest insect meal production capacity in Europe.
IntraFish
As the world's largest seafood news and information provider, IntraFish has inspired excellence in the seafood industry for more than 20 years. IntraFish’s offices are located in Seattle, New York, Puerto Varas, Singapore, Berlin, London, Cape Town, and several cities throughout Norway including Oslo and Bergen. IntraFish also hosts its Seafood Investor Forums twice annually, and Leadership Luncheons during SEG Brussels and AquaNor/Nor-Fishing.
Intrexon
Intrexon is a community of scientists and creative innovators working to build a safer, healthier planet, and a more promising future.
JAPFA Group
JAPFA is an industrial agri-food company that produces and sells dairy products, protein staples, and packaged food products in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, India, Myanmar, and internationally. The company operates five aquafeed mills in Indonesia that produce a wide range of feed products for commercial fish and shrimps farms. It also operates fish and shrimp hatcheries as value-added products to its feed customers who require commercial quality starter-species. Their aquafeed mills production capacity stands at 372,000 tons per year and produces shrimp feed (vannamei) and fish feed (tilapia, African catfish, milk fish, common carp, Pangasius, Asian sea bass, grouper and eel).
Kampachi Farms
The Kampachi Company is the holding company for Kampachi Mexico – producer of superb King Kampachi™, and Kampachi Farms, LLC – an industry-leading R&D company based in Kona, Hawaii. We see offshore aquaculture expansion as a pressing environmental imperative, and a tremendous economic opportunity. Kampachi Mexico operates a commercial hatchery and offshore farm in La Paz, in the Gulf of California. We anticipate harvesting over 500 tons of King Kampachi in our first year of production from our deep-water site, 4-miles offshore, and expanding to over 4,000 T/year by 2024. Kampachi Farms is also pursuing permits for an offshore demonstration net pen project in the Gulf of Mexico, off Florida. Our R&D teams in Hawaii and La Paz pursue ongoing feeds research (successfully testing zero-fishmeal diets in Seriola); culture of high-value herbivorous marine fish; and development of offshore farming technologies for macroalgae (seaweeds).
Kindai University
Since 1948, Kindai University’s Aquaculture Research Institute has used cutting-edge aquaculture methods to increase production of marine stocks and contribute to further technological advancement of the industry. A key part of its mission is to use the environmentally friendly aquaculture technologies built up over many years for the betterment of the worldwide aquaculture industry, and shift the industry away from ‘catching fish’ to ‘producing and raising fish’.
Kepley BioSystems
Kepley BioSystems Incorporated (KBI) is a pre-revenue, early stage start-up enterprise working to create disruptive innovations for global solutions. The team is comprised of 10 members and is designing novel olfactory technologies and products for the wild-capture fishing industry, aquaculture industry, agricultural industry and companion animal industry. KBI R&D and products are scientifically engineered with sustainable resources that are environmentally innocuous. The company leverages years of chemosensory expertise to create technologies that invoke attraction and improve animal husbandry, capture, health and wellbeing, and behavior. To date the company has been funded exclusively through federal grants from the National Science Foundation, North Carolina Commerce Departments and BioTech Centers and the North Carolina Sea Grant Agency.
KnipBio
KnipBio is a biotechnology company developing responsible and sustainable commercial feed solutions for the aquaculture industry. We are business innovators committed to solving real-world challenges by working with leading global corporations.
Menon Renewables
Menon Renewable Products, Inc. (Menon) was founded by Dr. Suresh Menon and is based in San Diego, CA. Menon has developed a patented process that converts hydrocarbon-based sugars from agriculture-based raw materials into a functional animal feed ingredient under the brand name MrFeed®. The ingredient not only overcomes anti-nutritional factors but also replaces various grains, animal, fishmeal and other components inside finished feed products. MrFeed® fulfills increasing worldwide demand for sustainable and renewable feed. Currently Menon produces 300,000 MT of feed annually.
Minh Phu AquaMekong Seafood Corp.
With 16,000 employees and 800M in seafood export turnover (2018), Minh Phu is the largest seafood company in Vietnam and No. 1 in shrimp export globally. The shrimp farms produce 10,000-15,000 MT/year with a focus on Penaeus vannamei and Penaeus monodon. Minh Phu produces more than 7,000 kinds of products, including traditional prawns, sushi, nobashi, and tempura. The company’s two factories, Minh Phu Ca Mau and Minh Phu Hau Giang, have the capacity to produce over to 70,000 MT of finished products/year.
Mitsui
Mitsui USA is engaged in business investment, project development and management, and capital goods leasing and technology transfer, in addition to traditional businesses of a Sogo Shosha (general trading company) such as import, export, offshore trade and domestic wholesale.
Monterey Bay Aquarium, Seafood Watch
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch® program helps consumers and businesses choose seafood that's fished or farmed in ways that support a healthy ocean, now and for future generations. Our recommendations indicate which seafood items are Best Choices or Good Alternatives, and which ones you should Avoid.
Mowi (previously Marine Harvest)
The world´s largest producer of farmed salmon, both by volume and revenue, offering seafood products to approximately 70 countries world-wide. In 2017, MOWI employed 13,233 people in 24 countries with a revenue of 41 billion USD harvesting 2.1 million tons.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
NCEAS is an independent research affiliate of the University of California, Santa Barbara that works to accelerate scientific discoveries that will enhance our understanding of the world and benefit people and nature, as well as to transform the scientific culture to be more open, efficient, and collaborative. NCEAS enables collaborations conducting breakthrough science partnering with agencies and organizations.
National Renderers Association (NRA)
The National Renderers Association (NRA), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, was formed in 1933 as the professional organization of the rendering industry. At NRA, we represent our members’ interests to regulatory and other governmental agencies, promote the greater use of animal by-products and foster the opening and expansion of trade between foreign buyers and North American exporters. In addition to our US-based headquarters, we also maintain offices in Mexico and Hong Kong and have market consultants in Brussels, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Chile.
Nefertiti Biotech
Nefertiti Biotech helps biotechnology companies navigate the innovation ecosystem.
New Hope
New Hope Liuhe Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on March 11, 1998. The company is based on the agriculture and animal husbandry industry and focuses on steady development. The business involves feed, breeding, meat products and financial investment, commerce and trade. The company has operations in the country and more than 20 countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Egypt and the United States. In each country, there are more than 500 branches and subsidiaries, and 61,000 employees. The annual output of feed is nearly 20 million tons, with 500,000-1,000,000 tons of that being aquafeed.
NMBU - The Norwegian University of Life Sciences
NMBU’s mission is to contribute to the well-being of the planet. Their interdisciplinary research and study programs generate innovations in food, health, environmental protection, climate and sustainable use of natural resources, enabling people all over the world to tackle the big, global challenges we face today.
NovoNutrients
NovoNutrients transforms waste industrial CO2 into feed and food, through industrial biotech – initially for the fast growing aquaculture sector.
Novus
Novus helps feed the world with nutrition and health through nutrition solutions for the animal protein industry. With over $1B in sales and customers in all 5 continents, Novus is owned by Mitsui & Co. and Nippon Soda.
NuSea
The Nutrition and Seafood Laboratory at Deakin University (NuSea.Lab) aims to positively contribute towards improved environmental sustainability, economic viability and social responsibility of the nutrition and seafood sectors. NuSea.Lab therefore provides innovative and timely research and development solutions for the nutrition and seafood sectors through novel ideas, rigorous testing and documentation of the achievable outcomes.
Nuseed
Since 2011, Nuseed has collaborated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) in Australia to develop canola seed with a unique profile that includes long-chain omega-3 fatty acids. This profile offers substantial nutrition and supply advantages with increased DHA levels that provide the building blocks essential for both human health and fish health. The resulting oil is a reliable land-based source of long-chain omega-3s that will help address the limitations of fish oil. Australian regulators have granted approval for the production and use in feed and human consumption of Nuseed’s proprietary omega-3 canola, with approvals pending in several other countries.
Nutreco/ Skretting
Nutreco is a Dutch producer of animal nutrition, fish feed and processed meat products with approximately 100 facilities in 35 countries. Nutreco employs over 12,000 people in 35 countries with net sales of $6.4 billion in 2016. Its two global company brands Skretting (aquafeed) and Trouw Nutrition (animal nutrition) have sales in over 90 countries. Skretting is the global leader in providing innovative and sustainable nutritional solutions for the aquaculture industry. Skretting has production facilities in 18 countries on five continents, and manufactures and delivers high quality feeds from hatching to harvest for more than 60 species. The total annual production volume of feed is more than 2 million tons.
Ocean Executive
Ocean Executive is a software company that streamlines the business process from the old to the new, automating the entire seafood sales process. Our software allows companies across a wide seafood supply-chain to easily transition their B2B operations online.
OpenROV
OpenROV started out as a project among friends to get to the bottom of an underwater cave rumored to contain buried treasure. Since then OpenROV has grown into a company and community of people who are working together to create powerful new tools for underwater exploration.
Pacific AquaFarms
Pacific Aquafarms (PA) is a world leader in aquafeed innovation, high rate water systems and geothermal aquaculture. PA has successfully grown multiple saltwater and freshwater fish, shrimp and macro algae products. The farm’s current focus is on catfish, tilapia and shrimp.
Pivot Bio
Pivot Bio was born out of an ambition to replace synthetic nitrogen fertilizer with something more sustainable and safer for farmers to use. Its co-founders, Karsten Temme and Alvin Tamsir, developed a new crop nutrition solution and have built a company to provide sustainable solutions for farmers and improve the health of the planet through scientific innovation.
Prairie AquaTech
Prairie AquaTech comprises two vital divisions: product development and manufacturing. The AgTech Center focuses on research, testing and trials of innovative plant-based technologies. To accomplish this crucial focus, the facility is engineered to be one of the world’s most complete and adaptable aquaculture technology facilities. ME-PRO®, was refined and tested at the AgTech Center. ME-PRO is a plant-based protein ingredient that reduces aquaculture’s reliance on dwindling supplies of fish meal. AgTech Center researchers scale-tested ME-PRO samples from small, 5-liter batches to fulfill 5-ton feed trials! Utilizing the AgTech Center’s RAS system, ME-PRO also was studied on multiple fish species to assess digestibility and growth-stage performance.
Red Lobster
Red Lobster has been committed to seafood sustainability since they first opened their doors in 1968. As a founding member of the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) in 1997, they helped establish guidelines for best practices and aquaculture certifications. With 58,000 employees, $2.5 billion in sales (2017), serving over 700 locations in 11 countries, Red Lobster is the largest seafood-buying restaurant in the world.
Reed Mariculture
Reed Mariculture is the world's largest producer of marine microalgae concentrates. We supply algal feeds and zooplankton to universities, marine ornamental growers, and over 500 fish, shrimp, and shellfish hatcheries in 80+ countries around the world.
Reliance Industries
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) is India’s largest private sector company, with a consolidated turnover of $66.1 billion in the year ending on March 31, 2018. RIL’s activities span hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail and digital services. RIL’s state-of-the-art R&D centre located in Mumbai, India has research programs in refining, polymers and synthetic biology. Algae-to-Oil (A2O) is a breakthrough R&D program with one of the world’s largest pilot facilities exploring the potential of microalgae for bio-crude, food and feed.
Santa Monica Seafood
Santa Monica Seafood is a full-service fresh and frozen seafood processor and distributor based in Southern California. We are the largest seafood-only distributor in the Southwestern United States. We offer a wide range of services and have well-trained sales and customer service staff available to handle all of your seafood needs.
Scoular
The Scoular Company is a 125 year old privately held supplier of feed and food ingredients. For the past 20+ years, we have been one of the leading suppliers of high value nutritional proteins and fats for the global aquaculture industry. Our customers are highly interested in new developments and innovative solutions to meet their sustainable ingredient challenges. We pride ourselves in being a solution provider by working with many alternative suppliers of key ingredients. The Scoular Company is a potential strategic investor seeking to connect our strong customer relationships, our understanding of key supply trends, quality attributes, and other marketplace dynamics with innovative ingredients for tomorrow’s aquaculture industry.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A department of UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for ocean, earth and atmospheric science research, education, and public service in the world. Their mission is to seek, teach, and communicate scientific understanding of the oceans, atmosphere, and Earth for the benefit of society and the environment.
Sea Grant
For over 50 years, the National Sea Grant College Program has supported coastal and Great Lakes communities through research, extension and education. Sea Grant's mission is to enhance the practical use and conservation of coastal, marine and Great Lakes resources in order to create a sustainable economy and environment.
SF Bay Brand
From our predecessors in 1934, our goal to provide the most nutritious diets available that are closest to each species’ natural diet has been dramatically borne out. San Francisco Bay Brand® aquarium fish foods are the favorite, savory foods from their natural environment. Equally important, each wholesome product provides all the essential nutrients that are so vital to fish growth and good health. SFBB now has worldwide distribution for our product lines of Brine Shrimp, Natural Formulated Diets™, Single Ingredient Diets, Dry Diets, Brine Shrimp Eggs, and Seaweed Salad™. We will continue to provide research to develop new diets to enhance the lives of each aquatic pet and the hobbyist.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Oceanography conducts research on physical, chemical and biological oceanographic processes, marine technology, and marine social science.
Shrimpvet ( http://shrimpvet.com/), is the first and prominent private laboratory working on Aquaculture in Vietnam with a diagnostics lab, hatcheries, and an R&D farm. With 80 employees, Shrimpvet specializes in shrimp health management, focusing on genetics, breed, seed production, diagnostics and disease management, and farm techniques and management.
Spring Salmon
Spring Salmon LLC is the parent organization for Evaqua Farms (second largest producer of farmed trout and steelhead in the USA, located in Idaho) and its sister company, Riverence (a Rainbow/Steelhead Trout, Atlantic Salmon, and Coho Salmon breeding company based in Washington).
Sv2 - Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund
Sv2 leverages the extraordinary resources and talents of Silicon Valley leaders and social innovators to create measurable positive impact in our community and world.
Temasek
Temasek is a global investment company headquartered in Singapore. They are a generational investor, seeking to make a difference always with tomorrow in mind.
TeselaGen Biotechnology
TeselaGen provides a revolutionary DNA design and assembly protocol generation service decoupling DNA design from any underlying assembly method, providing the most advanced Bio CAD/CAM system available.
Tierra Biosciences
Tierra Biosciences has developed proprietary methods to discover new molecules derived from nature. Tierra’s technology leverages advances in cell-free synthetic biology, automation, and computation to allow it to search for molecules inaccessible by current methods. The base technology was recently profiled in The Economist, “Cell-free biotech will make for better products.”
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is tackling some of the toughest problems facing people and nature today, replicating good ideas to save many places and improve people’s lives. We are grounded by local experience and leverage our science, real-world solutions and partnerships to influence global decision-making.
Tom Gruber
Tom Gruber Tom Gruber is a researcher, designer, and entrepreneur, with a focus on technology to augment human intelligence. He was cofounder, CTO and VP Design for Siri, which created the first intelligent assistant for everyone. Siri was started in 2008, launched in early 2010, and soon after became part of Apple and is now available on every new iPhone, iPad, Watch, Apple TV, and Mac. Siri is used around the world over 2 billion times a week. At Apple, Tom led Advanced Development to bring AI to the UI for current and future products. Prior, his research at Stanford in Artificial Intelligence helped lay the groundwork for the Semantic Web. He has created several products and companies that support human collaboration and knowledge sharing: invented HyperMail, was CTO of Intraspect Software, built RealTravel.com and has played an advisory role with LinkedIn, SocialText, Internet Archive, Mindjet, (Radar Networks), and Powerset (now Microsoft).
Tongwei
Tongwei Group is a technologically advanced large trans-national enterprise and one of China’s top 100 enterprises. The company operates in China as well as overseas with over 170 branch/subsidiary companies and approximately 30,000 employees. Tongwei Co., Ltd. is the group’s feed and aquaculture business chain extension and is on its way to becoming a world-class supplier of healthy and safe food. The company aims to ramp up aquatic feed production from its current 2.5 million metric tons per year to 4 million tons by 2022.
Tsar Nicoulai Caviar
For over 30 years, Tsar Nicoulai Caviar has sustainably cultivated world-renowned caviar from 100% American White Sturgeon. Their artisanal hand-crafted white sturgeon caviar is carefully produced and selected without the use of antibiotics, growth hormones, GMOs or synthetic preservatives. The farm itself is a closed-loop model of sustainable caviar production and is the first caviar farm in the world to produce food in an aquaponics system, which is a complete ecosystem that includes growing fish, plants and bacteria.
Two By Sea
Two By Sea (or TwoXSea) is a sustainable seafood wholesaler located on Pier 45 of historic Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Since 2009, they have been sourcing 100% traceable seafood harvested and grown by small-scale fishermen from the U.S. West Coast. Known for their commitment to quality, TwoXSea sells to many of the top Bay Area and Portland, Oregon restaurants, markets, and fishmongers.
Ultra Capital
The world’s most critical resources need better management. Agriculture, energy, waste, and water are all facing increasing demand, accelerating in scarcity, and facing rapid environmental change. Technological innovation is simultaneously enabling new, more modular and efficient decentralized infrastructure to help alleviate these resource constraints in a more affordable, reliable and sustainable way. They require an understanding of proven technologies that are not familiar to other capital sources. They require an understanding of the variability of the markets they operate in, and how to assess the creditworthiness of smaller counterparties.
Undercurrent News
Our purpose is two-fold. Thanks to our industry knowledge and team of multi-lingual reporters, we strive to cover the major news and trends in the seafood sector, ranging from daily business events and prices movements, to legal cases, mergers and acquisitions and in-depth pieces. Our second focus is data. A lack of readily available and reliable data is a key issue facing this sector. Our prices dashboard offers a unique insight into raw material prices for globally traded commodities such as Chinese shrimp or Russian cod, while our reports page aims at highlighting all major research projects relevant to this industry.
University of Stirling
The University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture works with governments, regulatory bodies, industry, pharmaceutical suppliers, fish farmers and supply chains to tackle global problems of food security, hunger and sustainability through aquaculture. As a global organisation, they have links and partnerships with over 50 countries and have built up a first-class, international reputation with their work.
USSEC (U.S. Soybean Export Council)
US Soybean Export Council helps build a preference for U.S. soybeans and soybean products, advocate for the use of soy in feed, aquaculture and human consumption, promote the benefits of soy use through education and connect industry leaders through a robust membership program.
Veramaris
Veramaris is a 50:50 joint venture of DSM and Evonik for the production of the omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA from natural marine algae. Veramaris produces an algal oil rich in the two essential omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA through large-scale fermentation at its facility in Blair, Nebraska, USA. Veramaris enables partners along the value chain to become independent from wild-caught fish and meet the growing demand for animal protein responsibly.
Wild Earth
Wild Earth is a biotech startup developing clean high-protein pet foods that are healthier, better for the environment, and more humane than conventional products. Backed by $4 million in venture capital, Wild Earth is just beginning to sell its meatless pet foods and will scale up as sales progress.
World Resources Institute (WRI)
WRI is a global research organization that spans more than 50 countries, with offices in the United States, China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, and more. Their more than 700 experts and staff work closely with leaders to turn big ideas into action to sustain our natural resources—the foundation of economic opportunity and human well-being. WRI develops research-based solutions that create real change on the ground. Their work relies on a three-step approach: Count it, Change it, Scale it.
X - the moonshot factory
X is a diverse group of inventors and entrepreneurs who build and launch technologies that aim to improve the lives of millions, even billions, of people. Our goal: 10x impact on the world’s most intractable problems, not just 10% improvement. We approach projects that have the aspiration and riskiness of research with the speed and ambition of a startup.
Yuehai
Yuehai Feed Group is a leading high-tech company in Guangdong Province, focusing on research and production of aquafeed, aquatic seedlings, and premix additives. Yuehai has 13 subsidiaries in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and other coastal provinces, with more than 2,000 employees and an annual aquafeed production capacity of 500,000~1,000,000 metric tons.
Zeigler Brothers
Founded in 1935, Zeigler Bros. Inc. develops and applies new and innovative technologies for specialty animal and aquatic diets. The company has been at the forefront of aquaculture nutrition and innovation since the early days of its commercial development. Utilizing core competencies in R&D, nutritional formulation, and process engineering, Zeigler currently manufactures over 300 products and exports to over 50 countries around the world. Zeigler has two manufacturing facilities located in south-central Pennsylvania and five feed mill licensees located in Latin America, Egypt and India.
ZHD (CP China)
Established by the CP Group, ZHD is a large-scale pioneer agriculture company and an advanced aquafeed supplier in China. The main business involves aquatic breeding, shrimp aquaculture, production and sales of aquafeed and reagents. ZHD has an annual aquafeed production capacity of 500,000~1,000,000 metric tons.
Zhejiang University
Zhejiang University’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Management has close academic exchange and cooperation with over 30 research institutions and universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and etc. and conducted many influential research projects with these collaborators. The department has obtained great achievement in research based on the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (simplified as CARD) which is one of the Key Humanities and Social Sciences Research Bases nominated by Ministry of Education in China and the National Innovation Base for China Rural Development Research.