🐟🦐 Next Generation of Aquaculture 🦐🐟 We are solving global sustainability problems at land-based fish and shrimp farming, with a new farming technology. Farmed seafood is an alternative towards wild caught seafood, therefore lowering the demand of wild caught seafood helps the transition towards sustainable wild fishing methods. But today's farming of fish and shrimp has challenges in feed, health, eutrophication and water consumption. Nära & Naturlig has developed a new farming technology and by mimicking nature's own way of cleaning water, the unsustainable challenges are solved and economical advantages are obtained. In our technology the farming water is cleaned in a natural way by algae, bacteria and other small organisms called microbes, instead of today's technical cleaning filters which need to replace 1-10% of the total water volume each day. For us the residual products from the farm are cleaned by these microbes and the fish/shrimp in its turn will eat the microbes, creating a natural ecosystem inside the farm which enables 100% reuse of all water and residual products. Also, this microbial farm enables microbial metabolism of food by-products, the system indirectly produces high quality fish and shrimp from these food by-products. The natural microbes give a natural feed for the fish/shrimp and a superior health is observed. Also the natural feed of microbes gives the farmed fish/shrimp a superior taste. Specific Data on the technology: 30% higher feed conversion rate, enabling 100% replacement of marine protein towards plant based in the feed, lowering protein content of feed by 34% without affecting growth rate and health, (this plant- based feed with lower protein levels constitutes a feed with lower environmental impact). This new technology is published in the scientific journal Aquaculture. 🦐🐟We are focusing on following global sustainability goals 🐟🦐 Nr 14 Life below water. We offer an alternative to wild caught seafood, which aids the establishment of sustainable fishing methods and enables recovery of the marine ecosystems Nr 12 Responsible production and consumption. We promote sustainable consumption and production through a circular water and nutrient system, that in the internal production is reusing all farming water and residual products. Nr 9 Sustainable industries and infrastructure. Industries become more sustainable through the reuse of their food by-products and waste heat. Serverhalls or industries with waste heat can be used to heat up the farm. N 2 Zero hunger. The final goal is to develop a sustainable fish/shrimp farming method in Sweden, which can be established internationally and above all help developing nations to get access towards safe and nutritious food produced in a sustainable way. The farming technology will be sold with a licence model towards self owned regional partners. Nära & Naturlig will sell farming unit-models that are easily scaled in numbers towards the requested farm size. Through a licence fee on the yearly turnover the partners get the knowledge transfer of how to create and maintain a safe and efficient farming system. The partner also needs consistent delivery of the secret recipe of premix material form Nära & Naturlig that sustains an efficient and safe system. Nära & Naturlig also constitute the whole-saler of the produced fish/shrimp from the partners and will sell through its high end brand of sustainable, natural, healthy and locally produced seafood. Sweden is seen as a good verification country and market, but as soon as possible the technology and fish/shrimp sales will be established internationally. 🦐