Cliff White has been the executive editor of SeafoodSource since 2016. Previously, he worked as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.-based Kuehnle AgroSystems (KAS) has developed a method to produce naturally derived algae astaxanthin at commercial scale. It recently received USD 3.2 million (EUR 3 million) from S2G Ventures to help it expand. Astaxanthin is a carotenoid with antioxidant properties that is used in aquafeed to give salmonids and shrimp a reddish coloration. Previous KAS funders include Aqua-Spark, Hatch, and Cavallo Ventures,
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Elverta, California, U.S.A.-based Sterling Caviar entered receivership in April 2024, with creditors claiming the company owes them more than USD 23 million (EUR 21.5 million).
Numerous lawsuits involving the company dating back to 2020 reveal significant financial issues plagued it for years, and may continue to complicate its existence as its ownership pursues a path forward.
In 2020, Ken Beer, the owner of Galt Fish Farm, who does business as
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Simo Ellilä is the CEO of Espoo, Finland-based Enifer, a biotech firm concentrating on producing its PEKILO fungi-based protein product for aquafeed and other uses.
SeafoodSource: What is your background and how did you get involved in Enifer?
Ellilä: I'm a bioprocess engineer. In my previous life, I did a lot of development with biofuels and biochemicals, and the underlying theme was how could we transform side-streams
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Iceland is the perfect place to grow fish in land-based facilities, with the exception of volcanos and earthquakes, according to Christo du Plessis, the CEO of land-based Arctic char-farming firm Matorka.
Beginning in October 2023, the area around Matorka’s farm in Grindavík, Iceland, experienced the first of what eventually became several hundred volcanic events and earthquakes, with a peak quake occurring 10 November 2023 that
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