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…
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 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…
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…
Spheric hosted a high-level webinar for the Global Aquaculture Challenge initiative, topics ranging from aquaculture nutrition to the impact of innovation were covered during the 2 hour webinar where we had the participation of renowned experts. About the webinar: Aquaculture is practically the only animal protein known to man that can be increased in output without ensuring the environmental…
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…
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…
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…
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Matt Craze, partner at Spheric Research, presented…
