Chief of the Naval Staff
Blue Economy Initiative
Nurturing the Triple Helix Players in Pakistan's Blue Economy
Medium Scale Startups
EntoFood, Kuala lumpur Malaysia
Entofood research program was initiated in Madagascar in 2011 with an intensive program of species and feedstock selection, enforcing driving factors: -Sustainable business model, Feed security, Large scale facility, global roll out . In 2012, Ento food built its pilot farm in Malaysia and carried out its in-depth applied research program.
Algaplus, Portugal
“Algae may be the key to unlocking an important negative-emissions technology to combat climate change,” Charles Greene, Cornell professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences said. The scientist explained that when algae is combined with eucalyptus, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage as well as microalgae production could produce a unique scientific synergy that could both reduce greenhouse gases and help solve world hunger.
Solar Power Small Desalination Plant, India
10,000-liters-per-day solar-powered desalination plant was set up at the Vivekananda Memorial in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu. The plant was developed by a team from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M)
Odyssey Sensors, UK Based
Odyssey Sensors, in collaboration with Definium Technologies, developed and field-tested a low-cost (<$30), solar-powered, handheld salinity sensor with the potential to double smallholder shrimp farmers’ crop yields and incomes, in less than one year. The novelty of the Healthy Shrimp Salinity Sensor is grounded in its affordability, durability and accuracy.
TVEC (Technical and Vocational Education Center), Maldives
Technical and Vocational Education Center (TVEC) is a vocational training institute established in 2017 by the Coastline Foundation. It is a one of a kind institution where participants learn through practical experience, team work, community activities and living together. Established in B. Kihaadhoo, spanning over an area of about 5 acres, TVEC is the first and one of its kind institute in the Maldives with training programmes including trade specific and personal development programmes conducted in a unique live-in learning community.
Aquaconnect, India
Aquaconnect was founded in 2017 as a full-stack aquaculture technology venture to offer data-driven farm advisory solutions and market place solutions to Shrimp and Fish farmers.
Energaia, Thailand
EnerGaia has designed a way to farm spirulina: a nutritious, algae “super-food” that tastes good and can grow anywhere. Right now, EnerGaia cultivates spirulina on urban rooftops, but the company’s production unit can be outfitted for almost any location. Packaged in fresh, dry and frozen powder forms, the harvested algae can be mixed directly into recipes or consumed as a vitamin supplement.
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TimberFish Technologies, NewYork
TimberFish is a new ecotechnology that is environmentally sound and economically competitive in today’s marketplace.
Selling this seafood reduces or eliminates the costs associated with the treatment and disposal of the wastes.
The Recycler
Fishmeal feed used for fish production is diminishing in stock, rising in cost, unreliable in quality and depleting wild fish populations, sending the commercial aquaculture industry in search of a cost-effective alternative feed source.
Indian Ocean Trepang, India
Sea cucumbers have been consumed as a delicacy, since as early as the 8th century. Today, sea cucumber vitality is critical in the Indo-Pacific region, where local fishermen harvest them to meet rising global demand. But, due to the long-standing exploitation of 70+ sea cucumber species, tropical regions are seeing alarming extinctions of their respective local sea cucumber species.
