Take a look inside Atarraya’s 'Shrimpbox.'
that keeps the water clean by promoting the growth of beneficial microbial communities. Each Shrimpbox is semi-automated by a software that can monitor the tanks, which have sensors inside that measure the concentrations of oxygen, temperature, pH, nitrogen dioxide, nitrate, ammonium, turbidity, and alkalinity of the water. Users can even feed the shrimp remotely, or tweak the settings based on the data they receive.
Atarraya claims that the technology it uses to grow shrimp “reduces water exchange almost to zero,” and “eliminates the need to use antibiotics and other chemicals,” both of which enable them to start these kinds of farms anywhere in the world. Atarraya is currently in talks with the Indiana state government to install the first aquaculture farm there. Some versions of shrimp aquaculture already exist, including RDM Aquaculture, a farm that produces 250,000 shrimp a month. According to TechCrunch, Atarraya’s farm, which will be intended for demo and training, is expected to open there later this year. Other Shrimpbox prototypes are being assembled in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Atarraya is not the first company with the dream of growing seafood indoors. A Singapore-based startup called
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