Kingfish producer signs supplier for next phase

Land based fish farmer The Kingfish Company has signed a deal with a key supplier for the expansion of its production facility in Zeeland, in the Netherlands.

RAS (recirculating aquaculture systems) specialist VAQ AS will be working on the technology for Phase III of the yellowtail kingfish farm.

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Kingfish CEO confirmed for Aqua Agenda webinar

The Chief Executive of an innovative land-based fish farming business is the latest panellist to be confirmed for Fish Farmer’s webinar – taking place on 16 October – on land-based aquaculture.

Vincent Erenst is the CEO of The Kingfish Company with a strong international, operational, and transformational track record and more than 35 years of experience leading aquaculture companies.

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Kingfish Company moves towards profit as sales rise

Fish in a tank

The Netherlands-based Kingfish Company, which produces yellowtail in a land-based farm, saw growth accelerate during the second quarter of this year.

Announcing its Q2 financial results, The Kingfish Company saw its volume production rise by 36% from 377 tonnes a year ago to 512 tonnes this quarter and 922 tonnes for the half year against 740 tonnes in H1 2023.

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Story telling

Aquafeed panel: (From left) Jane Byrne, Feed Navigator; Chris Ninnes, ASC; Laurent Develle, Regal Springs; Louise Buttle, DESM-Firmenich, Clément Ray, Innovafeed; and Douglas Martin, MiAlgae

Aquaculture needs to get better at explaining itself, but there were plenty of great narratives at the Blue Food Innovation Summit, as Robert Outram reports.

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Buoyant Kingfish on course to profit

Fish in a tank

The Kingfish Company, the Netherlands-based yellowtail fish farmer, recorded a strong performance last year. Publishing its accounts for 2023, the company reported revenues up coupled with what it said was an excellent biological performance. It achieved a 17% revenue increase in 2023, reaching €21.9m (£18m) against €18.7m (£16m) in 2022. Kingfish, which has a second…

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Kingfish Company’s Phase 2 is now operational

The Kingfish Company has announced that the second phase of expansion for its land-based farm in the Netherlands has been completed and is now fully operational. In a 2023 final quarter trading update, the yellowtail producer said the standing biomass has more than doubled to 967 tonnes in the company’s RAS (recirculating aquaculture system) facility.…

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Kingfish founder joins redfish start-up as Chairman

US fish farming start-up Pine Island Redfish has appointed Ohad Maiman, founder and former CEO of The Kingfish Company as Chairman of the Board. The move reunites Pine Island founder Megan Sorby – who was formerly Operations Manager with Kingfish Maine – with her former boss. Maiman, an Israeli financier, founded The Kingfish Company in…

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