Simply Blue Group | Aquaculture

Overview & Benefits

The Simply Blue Aquaculture model is based on the delivery of turnkey solutions for new low impact salmon farm structures whether it is inshore semi-closed salmon farming systems that we are delivering for Loch Long Salmon or the future opportunity of offshore salmon or seaweed farming. We bring new technology, new business models and new capital to the aquaculture sector.

We consent, develop, fund and install the chosen infrastructure on the site with close support from the future salmon farmer so that they can take over a completed system

This allows salmon farmers to concentrate on the husbandry of their fish whilst we develop their new farms or retrofit existing sites

Long term finance can enable the salmon farmer to lease the site if they do not wish to buy it.

Aquaculture Potential

Both salmon and seaweed play a role in the delivery of the low carbon economy. Salmon is a high protein food with only 7.2kg of CO2 per kg of meat compared to beef which has 39.0kg[1] (Mowi Salmon Farming Handbook 2022) and seaweed can replace fossil fuel-based products in a number of areas. Given this aquaculture, is set to grow considerably in the coming decades.

Marine aquaculture accounted for only 37.5% of all farmed food fish production in 2018. The United Nations reports that 31.4% of the world’s wild fish stocks are being over fished and another 58.1% have already been fully fished (FAO, 2016).

Aquaculture can meet the need for more sustainably sourced fisheries and the demands of a growing and more affluent world population. There has already been a 527% rise in global aquaculture production from 1990 to 2018 (FAO) and the UN report referenced above predicts the supply of farmed fish will overtake that of wild fish in the 2020s.

31.4%

of the world’s wild fish stocks are being over fished

58.1%

have already been fully fished (FAO, 2016)

527%

rise in global aquaculture production from 1990 to 2018

Aquaculture Projects

Aquaculture

Loch Long Salmon

Using low-impact farming methods to deliver environmental and fish welfare