- SHRMP.bio For nearly three years SHRMP.bio looked for the help a company like ours needs. Australia's agrifood leaders have now diagnosed why we couldn't find it. “We are still mainly crops and rocks; we don’t have a sophisticated food manufacturing sector.” One of the more than a hundred people consulted for a national report on Australian agrifood said that, and the report’s own numbers do not argue. Australia ranks seventy-fourth of a hundred and forty-five countries on Harvard’s Economic Complexity Index — down from sixty-first in… 19 October 2026
- SHRMP.bio Two shrimp companies proved the market is real. Then production nearly killed them both. The first objection we always got in the beginning was: you have to be able to compete with (the cheap import) market prices. While one part of my argument was always, no, it is not today’s market prices I am worried about, it is tomorrow’s supply - this was generally rejected, I think either as arrogance or as science fiction. 16 October 2026
- SHRMP.bio On three continents they are building on-shore shrimp farms. On three continents, the state is paying. If land-based shrimp were a business that stood on its own, you would expect to find it where the commercial logic is strongest. Instead, you find it where the state has decided it should exist — and once you notice that, you cannot stop noticing it. Germany — a country with no prawn tradition whatever, and yet home to two… 15 October 2026
- SHRMP.bio The whole industry is quietly retreating to the layer SHRMP.bio started on Between late 2024 and 2025, the land-based shrimp sector saw several of the largest and best-funded companies in it fail, fold, or walk away from growing shrimp for people to eat or, at the bare minimum, their vision for it. Some of these are (or were) serious operations with real money and capable people, and most of them executed well… 14 October 2026
- SHRMP.bio The work worth most in 2050 is the work no one wants to pay for in 2026. The near-term economics of land-based shrimp production are hardly commercially viable — if at all. Australia imports most of its seafood, cheap imports set the price, and nothing produced on land at pilot scale could compete on cost. But that was never the plan for SHRMP.bio. SHRMP.bio’s bet is on a different world, two decades out — one where climate,… 13 October 2026
- SHRMP.bio Everyone is building a better shrimp box. We aim to build what every box needs. Almost everyone trying to grow shrimp on land is building a box. A better tank, a smarter container, a cleverer set of pipes and sensors. The competition is a race to own the best box. We looked at that race and decided not to enter it. “But your SHRMPreactor illustration is a box!” Correct. It’s an illustration. The opportunity in… 12 October 2026
- SHRMP.bio In 2024 I built scenarios for 2050. Some of them are turning up early. And not precisely the way I expected. In 2024 I did the sober version of imagining the future. It included two key axes — whether the world holds climate change in check or doesn’t, and whether food technology advances a lot or a little — and the four futures that fall out of crossing them. In the future that I bank on most, the one with hard… 07 October 2026
- SHRMP.bio The day I agreed with an admiral - on security, not on sailing (Why SHRMP.bio) I didn’t expect that, when I started working on a seafood startup, I would end up in an email exchange with an admiral. A pleasant one. Two years ago I built a set of scenarios for the future of food to work out whether building SHRMP.bio made sense. They kept returning the same uncomfortable answer: that in the futures worth… 18 September 2026
- SHRMP.bio Australia says it has no food-security problem. I am not convinced. (Why SHRMP.bio) Australia’s official position, put plainly, is that it does not have a food-security problem. The reasoning is straightforward: the country produces far more food than it eats, exports something like seventy per cent of its agricultural output, and sits inside a global trading system that spreads supply risk across many producers. A temporary shortage on a supermarket shelf is a… 18 September 2026