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INFOGRAPHIC: Wildtype has raised more venture capital than any cultivated seafood company worldwide. 

Our most recent infographic work has been featured in Undercurrent News latest story on cultivated seafood. The story covers the Jeff Bazos-backed cultivated seafood start-up, Wildtpye, which offers a new perspective on the cultivated meat and seafood sector. Justin Kolbeck, CEO of Wildtype, has welcomed calls from traditional salmon processors looking to collaborate. Unlike other voices in the industry, Kolbeck believes…

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Presenting 3 years of data at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum 2023

Matt Craze, partner at Spheric Research, presented data from the third annual Land-based Aquaculture Report at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF) today. The presentation focused on three potential growth scenarios of the land-based salmon and trout industry based off of data pulled from Spheric’s proprietary 2023 database, featured in this year’s Land-based Aquaculture Report. The presentation also included…

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Article: Protein from gas and bugs are making waves as COP 27 discussed food systems

Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt — Calysta, a company whose origins can be traced to the utopian vision of a 1960s oil executive, started making protein from methane on a commercial scale in October in China. France’s Innovafeed is building a giant insect protein factory in the US, bringing bug protein fed from the corn belt to pet food suppliers. Both breakthroughs mark a…

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Spheric at the Sea The Future conference 2022

Matt Craze presented on “The Money Behind Aquaculture” at the Sea The Future conference on new food technologies held in Eilat, Israel, organized by Israel’s Agriculture Ministry. We were thrilled to present at this event alongside subject matter experts, including the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization, global seafood expert Dr. Barry Costa-Pierce, and Trendlines Agrifood Innovation Centre CEO,…

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Spheric present at the Blue Food Innovation Summit 2022

On the second day of the Blue Food Innovation Summit held in London, Matt Craze presented and hosted a panel about RAS ”Overcoming Challenges to Scale and Diversification Across Species”. The panel was comprised of recognized industry executives, including Ohad Maiman, CEO of Kingfish Company, Erik Tveteraas, Investment Director at Nutreco and Yoram Layani, Partner of 8F Asset Management.

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Op-ed piece: Climate change makes case for RAS salmon farms

Matt Craze’s op-ed piece about climate change makes a case for salmon RAS. Since publication, there have been Q1 reports of big fish losses in Chile and New Zealand. New Zealand King Salmon CEO Grant Rosewarne last week called salmon farming the “canary in the coalmine” for climate change. Read the full piece at: Undercurrent News

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Presenting at the RAS-TECH Conference and Trade Fair 2022

Matt Craze presented a global view of the land-based aquaculture industry at the recent RAS-TECH event in Hilton Head, South Carolina. As we revealed in our recent Land-based Aquaculture Report published exclusively with Undercurrent News, a new cohort of 15 salmon RAS projects are financed and in the construction phase. Several will start production this year. This new cohort…

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Spheric present at the  Seafood Expo North America show in Boston 🐟

Matt Craze visited the Seafood Expo North America seafood show in Boston for the first time since coronavirus restrictions have eased and for his third consecutive show (2018, 2019, 2022). Matt reports of several great meetings with clients and a positive outlook for the seafood industry, albeit with some reservations about the high inflationary environment. Although the organizers claimed…

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Our Land-based Aquaculture Report (2021) is out!

The Land-based Aquaculture Report, previously launched as the The Salmon Land-based Handbook, is the second edition of our land-based aquaculture report series, this new issue includes a wide range of species, we found 32 projects to grow shrimp on land using modern technology, and about 60 projects in the other species category. There are 193 projects in the world,…

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Global Aquaculture Challenge Virtual Finale – 1 day to go!

Spheric Research is proud to announce the upcoming Finale of the Global Aquaculture Challenge 2021 on Oct 7, 2021 at 8:00 AM (CT USA). The cohort members Feedvax (Argentina), Genufeed (Israel), Jala (Indonesia), Salmokine (Chile), Seawater Solutions (UK), TeOra (Singapore), Wittaya Aqua (Canada), and Xylome (USA) will pitch and answer to live Q&A in front of the aquaculture industry…

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