2025
I am a biologist who studies aquatic animals, often from unusual places like Antarctica, the deep ocean, Amazonia and hypersaline lakes, to understand adaptions to thrive in such harsh environments. I am also passionate about achieving truly sustainable UK king prawn farming (“aquaculture”) by integrating New Agriculture Act subsidies with indoor, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), waste heat/renewable energy (anaerobic digesters), full circularity of wastes, and nature positive solutions.
In a world of purchasing added value brands to produce a low value commodity, the exposure to the downward pressure of agricultural prices is fraught with the continual profitability dilemma and the opposite of basic economics; “produce more to make a profit”. This session looks at using the farms assets, produce and space in a […]