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Aquaculture Magazine reports:
The biotechnology aquaculture company Natural Shrimp recently announced that, as a result of significantly increased production at its Webster City facility, the company is in the process of identifying, contacting and securing new commercial outlets for the sale of the company’s sushi grade shrimp. In this context, the company’s Sales Manager, Brian Rashid, has extended his sales territories to cover new and different commercial markets in the upper Midwest of the United States (US) to familiarize with potential new customers with the superior qualities and characteristics of Natural Shrimp‘s premium grade shrimp.
The company with headquartered in Dallas, in the US, has already penetrated the Chicago market and has established several repeat and reliable customers. What the company has not reported is that they have been approached by these customers wanting to establish local distribution centers and to act on the company’s behalf to service other local markets, restaurants and end-users in the Chicago area.
Rashid has met with and secured purchases from Asian markets in Minneapolis and Kansas City and has made deliveries to groups in Tulsa. Asked about the success he had encountered in these new markets, he stated: “I am lucky to have a product that, once presented and tasted, sells itself. Since most new customers with whom I have met are unfamiliar with Natural Shrimp or its products, the process initially involves educating the potential customers in the manner and method of preserving, packaging and sales.”
Targeting Asian markets
The Sales Manager explained: “We continue to target Asian markets that are more experienced in the sale of live seafood and whose customers trust they will provide then with the best quality. As Natural Shrimp continues to gain traction and brand recognition in the marketplace, we expect to be able to expand our footprint and serve a more generalized audience in the near future”. In this respect, the company is currently in negotiations with other regional markets with the specific intention of expanding this footprint, they reported.
Results from trial at aquaculture farm in Japan
A few weeks before, Natural Shrimp announced it has completed at the end of February a successful six-month trial in Japan with the company’s patented Electrocoagulation (EC) and Hydrogas technologies. The trial compared a tank treated by the EC and Hydrogas with a tank treated by a traditional biofilter. Throughout the six-month trial, the EC effectively removed the ammonia from the water. In addition, the shrimp growth rate increased during the presence of Hydrogas when compared to the shrimp growth rate in the tank treated only by the biofilter.
According to them, Natural Shrimp supported the trial by making three trips to Japan during the trial period and continued to actively participate in the trial by remote access to the equipment between trips. However, after initial instruction by the NSI team, the Japanese team was able to independently operate the EC and Hydrogas equipment on their own.
The Japanese team performed extensive testing of the equipment that included, among other things, collecting data under varying conditions by testing different flow rates, ammonia levels, and amperage levels. Based on the empirical results demonstrated by the Equipment during the Trial, Natural Shrimp looks to either joint venture, License or form a business combination in Japan.
Tom Untermeyer, Natural Shrimp Chief Technology Officer said, “I very much enjoyed working with the team in Japan during the installation and operation of our Equipment in the Japanese shrimp research facility. The Japanese quickly learned how to operate the EC and Hydrogas equipment and shared with us the data that they collected during the trial. The Japanese market is uniquely set up for the NSI technology based on its current shrimp import conditions and a robust consumption of shrimp as a primary protein source. I am excited to see where this will lead us in the future with the hope of helping them and others develop successful shrimp production systems using our technologies.”
Commercially viable system
It is good to remember that Natural Shrimp has developed and patented the first seafood-focused commercially operational RAS (Recirculating Aquaculture System). The publicly traded aquaculture company, is headquartered in Dallas and have production facilities located near San Antonio, Texas, and Webster City, Iowa.
They have developed the first commercially viable system for growing shrimp in enclosed salt-water systems using patented technology to produce fresh, naturally grown shrimp, without the use of antibiotics or toxic chemicals. Natural Shrimp systems can be located anywhere in the world to produce gourmet-grade Pacific white shrimp.
