Matt Craze will deliver keynote presentation on land-based aquaculture at the RAS Summit 2024 

Spheric Research’s Matt Craze will deliver a keynote presentation at the RAS Summit 2024, a virtual event on October 9 at 11:00am ET. He will present the latest data from our annual Land-Based Aquaculture Report, sharing insights gathered from hundreds of RAS companies worldwide. Joining him at the event are industry leaders: -Dag Sletmo, Sr. Vice-President, DNB Bank Seafood-Howard…

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Here goes for 5 days of Insights from Spheric Research’s Land-based Aquaculture Report 2024 – Day 1: Shrimp Spotlight

Europe is cementing its status as the cradle of innovation for indoor shrimp farming innovation. Germany’s Aquapurna secured a €20 million investment led by K+S, one of the world’s largest fertilizer companies, and France’s Agriloops raised €13m in the past six months. There are now more operating farms in Europe than in Asia and with different investor profiles. Asian…

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Spheric Research featured on The Economist’s Babbage Podcast

Spheric Research and Matt Craze feature prominently on Babbage, The Economist‘s science podcast. Science correspondent Abby Bertics does a really nice job unpacking the opportunity for RAS to become part of the global seafood supply chain, traveling to Norway to Salten Salmon AS ‘s post-smolt project and TransparentSea in California in a deep dive into the industry. David Cahill…

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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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The Global Aquaculture Challenge, an initiative supported by Spheric, announces its cohort, sponsors and prizes

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…

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Summing up AquaNor 2017 🇳🇴

Spheric Research at AquaNor 2017, Trondheim, Norway.

Matt just returned from Trondheim, Norway and a busy four days at the salmon industry’s biannual get together, working on the forthcoming feed report to be published by Undercurrent News. The salmon industry is booming, and hundreds of service providers want a piece of the action, selling everything from life jackets to gigantic offshore cages that have been crafted…

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