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Oceano Fresco's mission is to contribute to more sustainable food production, by producing high-quality bivalve species through science-driven aquaculture in a pioneer project in Europe. Since January 2020, the date of its first campaign through Goparity, the company has raised 1,3 million euros from the Goparity investor community. With a total of 630,000 euros already raised in 2021 alone.
The amount raised in the first campaigns Oceano Fresco I, II, III, IV, V, and VI has been used to buy equipment to install the first clam off-shore farm in the world, in Algarve. The clams are placed in open sea ponds where they can grow in their natural environment, in a sustainable way.
In the latest campaigns, Oceano Fresco Innovation I and II the company raised 350.000€ to co-finance two research and development (R&D) projects focused on the cultivation of clams. These projects in the areas of genetics and pathology, which will be developed in the hatchery and in the nursery, are highly innovative worldwide. The promotors pioneer project has already provided the company with two incentives totaling 1,4 million euros.
Oceano Fresco will use the funding from this campaign (150.000€) to finance new projects in food innovation to create value for their clients and promote the consumption of sustainable clams in targeted audiences. Specifically, this campaign will be used to collect funds for developing new products, packaging, and organic certification. This is the third R&D project funded by Goparity.
In August 2020, the company started the production of clam seeds in a Marine Bio Center in Nazaré, a pioneering project at the European level, which included the bivalve hatchery, a laboratory for R&D, and offices. In June of the same year, the installation of the offshore clam farm, in Alvor was finished, with an area of 100 hectares, and the capacity to produce 600 tons of clams per year, thus achieving total control of the production cycle of this bivalve.
The Biomarinho Center has already produced tens of millions of clam seeds. The nursery is running according to plan. In recent months Oceano Fresco has received customers in their nursery and the reactions have been unanimous about the high quality of the clams.
The first sales of semi-adults to shellfish farmers (to be seeded) will take place in September 2021. The sale of adults for human consumption is planned for the last month of this year.
Four more staff members have already been recruited, since July 2021, and recruitment will continue to grow in the coming months.
It is predicted that food production must double by 2050 to meet the demand from the world’s growing population. A sustainable blue economy will play a central role in alleviating the multiple demands on land resources and in tackling climate change. The sector can contribute by promoting the sustainable use of aquatic and marine resources and by providing an alternative source of protein with less environmental impact.
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"Can the ocean feed us sustainably?" written by Rodrigo Clímaco, responsible for the clam farm of Oceano Fresco.
The company is focused on sustainable aquaculture of high-value bivalves (European clams), using scientific research and methods, and an innovative approach in the systematic improvement of aquaculture. Funded in 2015 by Bernardo Ferreira de Carvalho, the company's motto is: “we can regenerate nature if we farm and eat better”. The company is led by a Board of five Directors with scientific, financial, and business experience, including launching and scaling up of start-ups. They are supported by a growing Operational Team (43 people) covering R&D, production, and business and several Advisory Board members with world-renowned fish breeding experts.
The company has built a state-of-the-art Biomarine Center, including a hatchery, labs, and offices in central Portugal, as well as a 100-hectare sea farm off the coast of the Algarve region. With these rare and complementary assets, the company will apply advanced selection and breeding methods to native European clam species of high nutritional and market value, which are presently being replaced in the market by their low-value Asian counterparts (low organoleptic value).
The company is proud to have accomplished the following milestones:
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