The Osmo Blog
Insights into the world of aquaculture, shrimp farming and the technology shaping the industry.
Review: Economics of Sustainable Shrimp Production
While the shrimp farming industry has exploded in recent years, farm-level data on the sustainable intensification of shrimp production methods has not. In Economics of Sustainable Intensification of Aquaculture: Evidence from Shrimp Farms in Vietnam and Thailand, the...
Top 5 Sustainable Farmed Fish & Seafood
One of the major pushes towards 100% sustainable farmed fish and seafood across the globe is the possibility for increased food production without increasing used natural resources. With new technological advances in aquaculture and agriculture, farmed seafood is...
Why Shrimp Farming? OsmoBot’s Story
Our Mission We believe that to save our oceans, we need to allow shrimp farming to outcompete with wild capture in terms of quality, taste, sustainability, and price. Who We Are Zach Stein (CEO) and James Regulinski (CTO) met when they were four years old. They have...
EMS – How Early Mortality Syndrome Changed Shrimp Farming
In a world with an ever-increasing population, shrimp farmers across the globe have begun to abandon traditional poly-culture farms and turn towards increasingly technologically advanced monoculture and intensive farms in order to meet the world’s growing food...
The Hidden Cost of Shrimp Fishing
While the practice of land-based shrimp farming has its own environmental set backs, their collective impact seems to pale in comparison to the catastrophic destruction caused by the most widely used wild shrimp fishing technique - trawling. Often referred to as...