iCell Brings a Closed-loop Circular Economy to the Aquaculture Industry——Future Food Asia 2021 Webinar
The Future Food Asia Platform held its Future Food Asia 2021 Webinar from June 7th to 11th, bringing together more than 50 representatives from food corporations, influential investors, industry experts, university professors and many other key ecosystem players concerned about the interests of the agri-food industry to attend this webinar. Over the course of this five-day conference, presentations from more than 30 enterprises in the industry presented innovative solutions for building the future of food production with the aim to improve the sustainable and healthy development of the agri-food supply chain in the Asia-Pacific region and to raise the public’s awareness of the importance of sustainable farming, world’s ocean and aquatic environmental protection.
At the morning session on June 9th, the CEO of iCell Sustainable Nutrition, Mark Rottmann, and the GM of The Yield Lab Asia Pacific, Claire Pribula delivered an in-depth and exploratory discussion on the topic "Fishery Innovation: Aquaculture Innovation" .
Mark Rottmann, CEO of iCell Sustainable Nutrition, indicated that “the continuous increase in protein demand driven by growing population has led to an inadequate supply from ocean fishing and protein scarcity. Meantime, protein supply is still in great need in the aquaculture industry. With iCell technology and its mature commercial operation, a new protein source and clean water, created during the remarkable recovery of 99% discarded nutrients contained in feed residuals and fish feces from the process water discharged out of the Land Based Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (LB-RAS) used to rear premium fish, can help achieve a closes-loop economy of nutrients and water, which will facilitate to obtain multiple win-wins through effectively addressing the protein scarcity problem and a series of other issues such as water resources, transportation costs and ocean fishing.”
In confrontation of challenges such as arable land scarcity, ocean overfishing, global warming, and resource constraints as well as tremendous external environmental pressures from “carbon” neutrality initials and the like, numerous enterprises fall into a strangled development by those headache problems. With iCell technology, all these problems can be effectively solved to bring a circular economy to the aquaculture industry. iCell has already successfully commercialized its more than 50 global patented technologies and established facilities in Laoling city, Shandong province and Taizhou city, Zhejiang province, China, achieving a circular economy from organic wastewater recycling and protein regeneration from waste nutrients. iCell has initiated the operation of LB-RAS project with Quality Salmon in Sotenäs Sweden, and concluded strategic cooperation with CP Group in China and with Quonset Park in Rhode Island, USA. Currently, iCell is negotiating the project cooperation of aquaculture and processing in Ensenada, Mexico and Michigan, USA.
Claire Pribula, GM of The Yield Lab Asia Pacific, extended great praise on iCell technology and its commercial operation, and concluded that “iCell technology not only plays a beneficial role in addressing the most thorny issue for RAS aquaculture regarding the wastes and sludge disposal but also can produce sustainable SCP in an creative way, casting an illuminating light for the protein resource crisis we are currently facing.”
