Matt’s Engaging Exchange with UCLA EMBA Students in Chile

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.

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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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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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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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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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Spheric Webinar: “How aquaculture can become the green protein machine?”

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…

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Exclusive interview with Atlantic Sapphire CEO and Co-founder, Johan Andreassen

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…

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