Enthos is using the BSF larvae to upcycle organic food waste into high-quality protein meal and oil.

This both addresses a critical need for sustainable protein sources for aquaculture and animal feed, as insect meal and oil has been demonstrated to be a great alternative to fish meal and fish oil, and also reduces the amount of waste sent to landfill. The added benefit of the latter is a reduction in methane emissions from decomposing organic material in landfills.

Feedstock is one of the main sources of cost for insect producers, but Enthos benefits from cheap and plentiful organic waste supply in Colombia and has designed a proprietary food waste reception system to optimize nutrient availability and eliminate vector contamination.

The combination of location guaranteeing optimal climate conditions for the tropical Black Soldier Fly, a capital efficient plant design relying on semi-automated processes and year-round availability of food waste enables Enthos to provide sustainable, circular feed ingredients at costs that are attractive to livestock producers while being financially profitable.

Formally founded by Ørjan Jensen in 2020 as a conventional cod farmer in Northern Norway, KIME Akva’s ambition is to become a cost-leading, fully integrated operation by 2025.

As of November 2024, the company has secured cod farming licenses; initiated operations at strategic sites; and formed key partnerships to ensure a robust supply chain.  

In 2024, KIME Akva completed its first full production cycle. It now has licenses for 12.8k tonnes approved and plans to scale production up to 24k tonnes per year by 2030. It aims to operate from nine locations in Northern Norway, the natural habitat for wild cod.

The company’s management and operations teams, which have more than 20 years’ salmon and cod farming experience with leadership roles at SalMar and Arctic Cod, is backed by a strong and motivated board of directors.

By deploying hundreds of fish farm monitoring systems serving regions across the Mediterranean, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, aquaManager empowers producers globally with the tools and insights essential for sustainable growth.

The growing worldwide consumption of a protein-rich diet is driving increasing spend and adoption of cutting-edge technologies, such as machine learning, IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), automatic feeders, and acoustic telemetry tracking systems by aquaculture farm owners.

The company harnesses its proprietary AI-powered Nature Analytics Framework to design, to assess and to analyse Nature-based Solution projects based on more than 150 data points.

Goodcarbon provides buyers and investors with a fully transparent and quantified digital twin of nature. This way goodcarbon can participate in the carbon credit market in three ways:

1. As an initiator of early-stage projects to get projects ‘investment-ready’ with a goal to secure long term and exclusive supply of credits to their platform;

2. As an agent using the platform to connect sellers/buyers of carbon credits, providing the infrastructure for buyers/sellers to transact in the form of financial products (spot/forward/stream).

Spot credits represent one tonne of CO2 already captured. Forward credits allow companies to hedge volume and price risk over the next 3-5 years by purchasing credits today with delivery of credits in the future.

And streams allow companies to build a baseload carbon stream by securing a share of the future carbon capture;

3. Goodcarbon allows companies to not only build assets but also to manage these portfolios over time. The company participates through long-term portfolio management fees.

Novelplast is leading the change in how low-grade PET/polyester feedstock materials can be recycled and repurposed,  serving its customers with a competitive recycled product.

By using those materials, the company is enabling increasingly efficient usage of resources thereby promoting further collection and recycling of plastic, saving 1000’s of tons of plastic material from landfill or incineration each year.

This is particularly timely considering regulatory and consumer pressures within a global recycled plastics market valued at roughly $50 billion globally in 2022 and expected to growth at a compound annual rate of roughly 5% (from 2023) to 2030, of which PET is about 20%.

Founded in 2020, AquaExchange automates large areas of shrimp farming operations in India, currently equivalent to 12% of the local industry. It launched PowerMon & AquaBot, IoT-enabled devices involved in aerator monitoring and automation of shrimp feeding.

AquaExchange expanded its offering to include full stack services such as facilitating finance, input and output sales, and market linkage through a proprietary software platform. It has also developed innovative solutions such as self-test Vibrio kits, prebiotics, probiotics, and traceability systems in collaboration with other partners such as HiMedia, Karyotica, Imkuraq, and WholeChain.

The company has partnered with various players in the ecosystem including hatcheries, feed mills, medicine and equipment manufacturers, processing companies, and banks with the aim to harness data to improve transparency and efficiencies across the entire aquaculture sector value chain.

Each day, this network makes more than 1.5 million real-time observations of waves and other ocean variables.

Sofar’s team of ocean scientists builds innovative models to assimilate the observations made by the Spotter network into Sofar’s marine weather forecasts. These forecasts are up to 70% more accurate than traditional models.

Sofar’s Wayfinder voyage optimization platform uses these highly accurate weather forecasts and vessel performance models to provide ships with optimized guidance that saves time, fuel, and emissions. Sofar chose to focus on maritime shipping, which produces 3% of global emissions, to maximize its impact.

Sofar also equips researchers, operators, and innovators with its devices and data. Customers deploy its extensible Spotter platform and access data from Sofar’s global sensor network to power marine research and sustainable commercial solutions.

Sofar’s team of engineers, ocean scientists, and business professionals is based in San Francisco, California.

The company, which is expanding its own processing facility in Chile with a current capacity of 1,200 tonnes per year, has also set up new pre-processing facilities in Latin America to have local footprint in each collection geography.

Some 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year, of which between 640 and 800 thousand tonnes are abandoned nets with the FAO estimating that 10% of all marine waste is made up of discarded fishing nets.

The recycling raw materials, under Bureo’s trademarked NetPlus® through a traceable supply chain, are sold to 20+ brand partners such as Patagonia, Toyota and Trek.

It is currently the largest land-based producer of yellowtail in the European market, with 3,500 tonnes installed capacity in 2023 and room to nearly double on site.

The Dutch fish farming company is also on track to become the first land-based yellowtail producer in the US.

Sustainability measures include: no antibiotics or vaccines used and the business is powered 100% by renewable electricity including wind-powered, solar and biogas.

Sea water, rather than fresh water, is used at the facilities, and waste water treatment with incorporated solids removal, ensures a safe discharge of outflow water.

While land-based farming and output treatment systems ensure that it is technically impossible for fish to escape and mix with the natural surroundings. 

The company’s first ship, the Arctic Pearl, an 85-metre converted oil services vessel is the world’s first equipped with this technology.

The precision harvesting technology has been successfully applied to re-open the Arctic scallop fishery in the Barents Sea after 30 years of closure and is being adapted to other species, such as queen and king scallops, sea cucumbers, snow crab and sea urchins.

Scallops alone are a market worth $2.5 billion.

The diagnostics technology uses blood biomarkers and artificial intelligence to determine the health status of fish, enabling fish farmers to monitor and improve the health and welfare of their fish stocks, while optimising production. Aquaculture diagnostics is a £3 billion and growing market, with value creation potential through optimizing feed and drug sales through data insights. The UK-based company, which is headquartered in Paisley, Scotland and has operations in UK, Canada and Norway, plans to offer feed optimisation and aquaculture healthcare in the future.  

The production of clams in Europe is currently constrained by a shortage of seed, as wild stocks have been depleted and hatchery capacity across Europe is too small to address demand.

MITO, a leader in the breeding and hatching of clams, aims to address these issues, by increasing its production volume of high-quality clam juveniles that will then enable farmers to sustainably increase their production of low-impact and low-carbon protein.

This will displace the farmer’s dependency on wildly sourced stocks, while simultaneously decreasing their mortality in grow-out and protecting the environment within the lagoon and take the pressure off the heavily overfished wild clam populations.

Alongside nutritional benefits, clams are an exceptionally efficient, low impact protein. As filter feeders growing in the sediment of natural lagoons, clams require no feed, fresh water or antibiotics, and almost no physical infrastructure.

MITO’s nurseries, located in the beautiful lagoons of Sacca di Goro in Italy’s Emilia Romagna Region and in Delta Po’ of Veneto Region area, will provide farmers with larger juveniles than currently available, which will decrease mortality in grow-out, thereby further supporting production growth.

Fish Farming

Tilabras utilises the latest techniques in farming and in its expansion will utilize the best technology suitable for continuing the most sustainable practices in the local environment where we operate. Tilabras is expanding farming capacity, upgrading equipment, streamlining the farming operations and working to reduce operating costs.

Fish Processing

Tilabras processes their fish in-house, utilising a new, state of the art processing facility, allowing Tilabras to ensure quality, efficiency and access to new markets and channels.  

Hatchery

Tilabras is expanding and will create an internal hatchery to increase quality, reliability and consistency of fingerlings and the early stage larval rearing process.

AION have successfully developed a fully circular product offering with digital traceability provided through their proprietary software platform, AION Loop, for a range of customers such as McDonalds, HAVI, Sodexo, KAOS and Mester Grønn.

The products that have a tailored, traceable and circular value chain within these companies include trays, transportation pallets, shopping baskets, take away boxes, fishing nets and rope.