Matt had a fun chat and lengthy Q&A session with EMBA students from UCLA while touring Chile. We discussed aquaculture, global seafood affairs, food security and the emergence of alternative proteins. UCLA toured salmon farms in a trip organized by Austral Group (a specialist in curated MBA travel programs). Matt happened to be In Puerto Varas for this group.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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
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…
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…
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,…
Matt had a fun chat and lengthy…
Our most recent infographic work has been…
