Recently in our Podcast Series with Undercurrent News, our founder Matt Craze interviewed the CEO of the world’s largest land-based salmon company, Atlantic Sapphire. During the 30-minute interview several points were discussed ranging from the operations of their main facilities at Miami and Denmark to the performance of salmon smolt in closed systems. Atlantic Sapphire achieved a massive stock…
Since its early starts, Spheric has been working together with The Yield Lab Asia Pacific in the organization of the Global Aquaculture Challenge, a non-profit accelerator program and competition. Throughout this effort we have implemented our expertise in the aquaculture industry hand in hand with renowned experts to evaluate a large variety of companies that applied from around the…
Spheric Research in conjunction with Undercurrent News has published the first ever ranking of the world’s Top 50 salmon companies. The report, which comes packed with insights gleaned from interviews with industry executives, underscores the industry’s growth challenges and Mowi’s unchallenged position as No. 1 producer. We provide exclusive data from Aq,uaChile on how it has become the dominant…
Spheric Research in cooperation with the Saint Louis-based ag-tech fund The Yield Lab is delighted to announce the launching of the Global Aquaculture Challenge, an initiative to encourage innovation in the aquaculture field. Applicants will be selected by aquaculture experts to participate in a world class non-residential 6-month Accelerator Program led by industry recognized Subject Matter Experts. The Challenge…
Spheric Research has finally published the Land-based Salmon Handbook in conjunction with Undercurrent News. This monster report is the first-ever data-driven approach to documenting the emergence of the land-based salmon movement. Besides documenting projects from futuristic designs to those plants currently in operation, we have supplied the first-ever database of post-smolt facilities that utilize recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) technology….
Conference venue in Skjerne, Denmark with a nice Father Christmas! I traveled to Jutland, the largest part of Denmark, for a meeting of the Danish Fish Tech Exporters Association. This is an impressive audience of RAS specialists to all types of actors in the seafood industry. We visited a RAS trout farm near Skjerne. A lot of the talk…
I got a tip from Norwegian equity analyst Christian Olsen at Kepler Cheuvreux that there was a potentially disruptive South Korean salmon company farming salmon offshore. As Seoul is a short hop over the Yellow Sea from Qingdao and the China Seafood conference, I decided to investigate further. Donghae STP was enormously accommodating and planned a meticulous agenda for my…
This year I joined the staff of Undercurrent News at this major seafood event in Qingdao, China. First thoughts are it’s quite remarkable to observe the development of even a so-called Tier II city such as Qingdao. Touching down on a crisp-cold November evening, Qingdao from above looks like Las Vegas with flashy neon-lighted hotels and massive highways. The…
Salmon executives are treated to the impressive volcano views of Puerto Varas when they visit the bi-annual AquaSur event in southern Chile. AquaSur rotates with the AquaNor salmon trade fair, which is traditionally held in Trondheim, Norway.The theme this year was unquestionably the future of omega-3 feed ingredients in the salmon industry. Veramaris, the joint venture of Royal DSM…
Guayaquil is the shrimp exporting hub of the Americas. We headed to the annual GOAL event, which is organized by the Global Aquaculture Alliance and brings together leading executives and thinkers from the seafood industry. There was a heavy emphasis on shrimp this year considering the destination and SR was busy at work researching Aquaculture Frontiers: Part 3, which…
Matt Craze, partner at Spheric Research, presented…
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt — Calysta, a company whose…
