FISH FARMING TECHNOLOGY LandIng Aquaculture is a young company which started from a wish to offer unique professional opportunities in aquacultural engineering. Looking back, we can see that the principles the company was founded on were not just our own but were also shared by many other aquaculture professionals from our generation.
to produce indoor-raised, fishmeal-free crayfish. Through our designing and business planning support, we have developed the first ever farm model that will allow this species to be reared indoors while keeping effluent discharges to a minimum. As strong and determined as Carlos Espinal she can be, she has been able to secure LandIng Aquaculture initial funding, a potential site and technical support. These new aquaculturists -which have Her long-term vision is also invested in become our partners, clients, friends and research; the final farm concept is expected colleagues- have shown us that we all to be a result of pilot trials aimed at increasing stocking densities, share some important common values. For example, we have which are often limiting in crustacean farming. The gender gap a long-term vision for the industry, one which is maintained is narrowing in the seafood sector at a very slow pace and as through sustained effort and sacrifice. We show LandIng advocate of the importance of gender balance in aquaculture, Aquaculture has initiative and perseverance, honed by our Elena is set to lead by example. academic and professional trainings. We appreciate the power of good technical knowledge to turn ideas into reality, but we also see trust, honesty and friendship as pillars of good business Fundamental research for business success: Glasaal practice. Volendam We want to introduce our readers to some of these young Few things in our sector require more perseverance than professionals, to give some grounded examples of what we mean. closing the life cycle of a new species and no other teams, in our experience, have shown as much patience and composure as Rick Leemans and Camillo Rosso at Glasaal Volendam. The new generation of aquaculture inside the EU Years ago, this small company embarked on a unique quest, one SEAentia- is a Portuguese startup with a vision to provide that has traditionally been taken on only by academic researchers: affordable, sustainable and high-quality seafood, in the form of the closing of the European eel’s reproductive cycle. We have had boneless white fillets and whole fish. They have chosen the fastthe privilege to participate to this pursuit. growing Corvina (Argyrosomus regius) for this purpose. The idea As their research produced new data, we used them to point us started by researchers João Rito and Nuno Leite, five years ago. where to aim, design-wise. Gradually, we helped them to upgrade In these years we have been helping them to conceptualise and their laboratories and address equipment and infrastructure design their farms and study the economic feasibility of their gaps. Their might seem slow, but when results are plotted, an business plans. They have grown their team, raised funding exponential progress curve is visible. Through years of arduous and technical support and achieved several excellence awards; research, their vision to bring farm-raised glass eel to the market and they are just getting started. Being only a few months away gap remains unmovable. from starting their first facility, they will use it to study the In our times, new professionals willing to dedicate many years zootechnical performance of meagre in RAS. With a rapidly in their own projects may be a rare find, but we they exist. As a changing climate and developing seafood markets, they are new professional, there is a sweet spot where knowledge gives embarking in this journey for the right reasons. you enough power to make the jump into a new venture, while a lack of experience still allows for the birthing of fresh (and Sustainable luxury sometimes crazy) ideas. Redclaw Foods Ltd is a younger startup led by our friend Elena We encourage our readers to find this spot and embark into their Piana. Elena has worked for Sea Farms Ltd on improving the professional adventure. On our side, we will keep doing the same, sustainability of global seafood supply chains for several years and we look forward to keeping helping these, and many new and has observed the growing consumer interest for sustainable inspiring people in the years to come. and high-quality crustaceans. She is embarking on a journey
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