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Innovasea Unveils Tagless Fish Detection

  • May 11, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Boston-based Innovasea has begun testing a new tagless technology that can detect, count and classify fish in real time using a combination of imaging sonar, optical cameras and artificial intelligence. 

The technology has been shown in early

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Halibut PEI Sold to Norwegian Investors

  • May 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halibut P.E.I., a fish farm that had been leaning heavily on innovative, land-based aquaculture techniques, has been bought by Norway’s Amar Group four months after filing for bankruptcy.

The Norwegian private equity company, which specializes in

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Barcelona to Host Ocean Council HQ

  • May 04, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

In a deal that aims to make Barcelona a leading hub for the Blue Economy, the World Ocean Council has agreed that the 2022 Sustainable Ocean Summit and inaugural Global Blue Finance Summit will be held in Barcelona. 

The agreement with Barcelona

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Resqunit Bags 30K-Unit Order

  • Apr 14, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Norwegian oceantech company Resqunit A/S, which maintains an office in Halifax via subsidiary Resqunit Canada Inc., has announced a “breakthrough order” from Shippagan, New Brunswick-based Entreprises Shippagan — a major wholesaler for the

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COVE To Host Ocean Connector

  • Mar 30, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth's Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship’s will host an Ocean Connector event Thursday, that will include a panel on the bluetech startup ecosystem.

The panelists will be moderator Mohammad Ali Raza, Eric Siegel, Peter Moreira and

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Innovation District Showcases Ecosystem

  • Mar 27, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

The Halifax Innovation District has begun a series of articles that show how Halifax entrepreneurs are using the city’s startup ecosystem to develop their businesses.

The first two articles, which detail how companies receive support from Volta and

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Planetary Closes $7.8M Round

  • Mar 22, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth cleantech startup Planetary Technologies has raised $7.8 million, including $4.2 million of equity funding and $3.6 million of grants to pilot its technology.

The investors include Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp

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Wittaya Opening Singapore Office

  • Mar 16, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

With galloping revenue growth, Toronto-based aquaculture software maker Wittaya Aqua is planning to open its first international office in Singapore this spring and is working on a $3 million raise.

The company, which has an employee based at the

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Innovasea Rolls Out Sensor Suite in Newfoundland

  • Mar 13, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Innovasea, the Halifax- and Boston-based company that monitors conditions in aquaculture pens, is rolling out a full suite of monitoring equipment at an aquaculture site in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, as part of a $27 million Ocean

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Ocean Startup Project Calls for Sustainable Ideas

  • Mar 13, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

The Ocean Startup Project, a national organization focused on boosting bluetech, is looking for participants for its Ocean Idea Challenge, a competition that connects aspiring entrepreneurs with potential co-founders and encourages them to identify

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Lab2Market Oceans Seeks Applicants

  • Feb 27, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Applicants are being sought for the third oceans cohort of the Lab2Market technology accelerator, which helps researchers commercialize their work.

Hosted by Dalhousie, Ryerson, Memorial and University of Manitoba, Lab2Market provides training and

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Marecomms Moves Into Commercialization Phase

  • Feb 21, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based bluetech company Marecomms is launching the commercialization phase of its evolution now that it has demonstrated its underwater communications system can work over two kilometres in shallow water.

Last Thursday, the company

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