What SHRMP.bio is
A seafood manufacturing system built for the twenty-first century — on land, close to where people eat.
SHRMP.bio is developing the technologies to make genuinely sustainable seafood possible. The approach combines molecular biology, bioprocessing and automation with the scale and simplicity of traditional aquaculture.
- Nearer term
Overcome current production constraints, move seafood production into urban and industrial areas close to markets, shift it away from regions most exposed to climate risk, and improve supply-chain traceability from raw material to finished product.
- Longer term
Contribute the tools needed to meet the pressure that climate change and population growth will place on global food security.
Approach
Three commitments the technology has to keep.
On land, close to market
Recirculating, land-based production sited near cities and industry — away from the coastlines and climate exposure that constrain conventional aquaculture.
Biology meets manufacturing
Molecular biology and bioprocessing married to automation, so that a living system can be run with the discipline and repeatability of a factory.
Traceable end to end
A supply chain that can be followed from raw material to finished product — quality and provenance made legible rather than assumed.
The thinking behind SHRMP.bio
Why land-based seafood, and why now.
The case for SHRMP.bio was worked out in the open — a set of essays on where seafood production is heading, the forces pushing it there, and the opportunity that opens up. They remain the clearest statement of the reasoning behind the work.
The future of seafood
- The forces shaping the future of seafood — 1. CustomersThe human population by 2050, and what it will need to eat.Read →
- The forces shaping the future of seafood — 2. TradeLogistics, population dynamics, and the shift in where food is made.Read →
- Aquaculture technology trendsThe technologies moving fast enough to change what production looks like.Read →
- Predicting the future: how can it be done?Building extreme scenarios to reason about a genuinely uncertain future.Read →
- Future scenarios — overviewFour scenarios at the intersection of technology and climate change.Read →
- Scenario: significant technological advances & limiting global warmingWhat a best-case pairing of progress and mitigation could make possible.Read →
- Scenario: significant technological advances & failed climate mitigationWhere technology races ahead while the climate keeps warming.Read →
The opportunity
- The potential of on-shore aquacultureWhat moving production onto land actually unlocks.Read →
- The opportunity in modern aquaculture: a brief overviewThe short version of the case, for readers new to it.Read →
- Why build SHRMP.bio in Australia?Because, in theory, Australia has everything needed to succeed — and to build a new industry.Read →
- Deep dive: the future of aquaculture & the opportunityThe longer walk through where this is heading and why it matters.Read →
Trajectory
From an idea to a body of work worth a home.
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Feb 2024
SHRMP.bio launches. Venture studio Blue Ocean Ventures spins out a blue biotechnology effort to develop sustainable seafood-manufacturing technologies. Read → The story →
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May 2024
The Future of Aquaculture, at Aqua Farm. A scenario-based case for where aquaculture is heading — and the opportunity in it — presented at Aqua Farm, an international aquaculture conference on the Gold Coast. The presentation → The story →
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Jun 2024
Audience Choice Award. SHRMP.bio wins the audience vote at the Startmate LaunchClub Pitch Night in Melbourne — the concept’s first outing to a wider room. Read →
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Sep 2024
Buildmate, and into the applications. The award opens access to Startmate’s Buildmate programme; an application goes in to the AusBiotech Early Stage Innovation Forum. Read → The story →
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Nov 2024
The thinking, in public. The “future of seafood” scenario essays are published, and SHRMP.bio submits to The Pitch (SmartCompany) — three slides, three minutes. Read →
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2025
Into the university. Research programmes begin with Swinburne University of Technology, and the first small-scale prototype of the SHRMPreactor is built at the University of Melbourne. The story →
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2026
Two teams at the University of Melbourne. Two Master of Biotechnology industry-project teams build the basis for the research to follow — one shaping the pilot facility and its commercial case, the other framing grant-ready frontier research.
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2027 →
Seeking a research home. The institution best placed to take these projects on, run them, and carry the work further — the home this work is now looking for.