Urchinomics raises $5.7m for commercial-scale projects in Japan, North America, Norway
Japanese energy and metal conglomerate ENEOS and a 'North American family office' participated in the fundraise, while Cornelis Vrolijk has been revealed as a longtime backer
Urchinomics signs R&D deal with Japanese tech giant NTT
It is Nippon Telegraph and Telephone's first foray into aquaculture AI, and the tech firm believes the outcomes will be applicable to all land-based projects in the future
Urchinomics begins Japan coop pilot in tsunami-hit region of Ishinomaki
Ishinomaki was one of the worst-hit areas in the 2011 tsunami and is still recovering; Urchinomics and 'Fisherman Japan', which looks to make fishing fashionable, aim to help
Urchinomics launches first Norwegian venture with land-based facility
The company -- which removes urchins from valuable kelp forests, where they are a pest, and raises them to a prized delicacy -- hopes this RAS will be the first of many
Canadian firm uses Japanese technicians to train staff on processing sea urchins
Labrador Gem has already sent out its first shipments, and the hope is up to two per week during the winter months if all goes well
NY Times: China sees growing demand for sea cucumbers
'Huge stretches of tidal flatlands northeast of Dalian, the peninsula’s port city, have been carved into patchworks of ponds so vast they are visible in satellite maps'
Urchin rancher secures California site, plans harvest by 2020
'Permitted aquaculture facilities in coastal California are as rare as unicorns,' Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda of Urchinomics said. 'Now it’s just a matter of the lawyers working out the details'
Japan’s Fujitsu testing internet of things in sea cucumber farming
Fujitsu and Coast Research Engineering hope to develop aquafarming techniques free of human labor
Canada’s Clearwater to ramp up sea cucumber processing in Newfoundland
Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans set the quota for sea cucumbers in the area at 6,106t for 2019, 1,000t more than last year
Urchinomics brings ‘pest’ urchins to retail at $70/kg
The initiative -- which catch sea urchins which are harming the environment, ranches them to improve roe yield, then sells them up a transparent chain -- is seeing results