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Optimizing control in shrimp RAS with John Diener of Vertical Oceans

Vertical Oceans is a unique recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) for shrimp because it touts itself to be modular, has zero discharge and is almost 94 per cent automated by a complex algorithm. Co-founder and chief executive, John Diener, talks about how he’s harnessing his team’s expertise in data science and bioinformatics to solve traditional shrimp farming’s environmental challenges.

Further reading:

• Vertical Oceans, “Our Mission” website
• “Meet the founder. Vertical Oceans’ John Diener on high-tech shrimp farming, ‘I have this obsession with efficiency’” (AgFunderNews, Jan. 5, 2024)