Elena Petukhovskaya

Big Akwa is a food-tech innovation start-up that economically and environmentally revolutionizes land-based aquaculture by introducing industrial symbiosis between the aquaculture and the process industry. Our solution introduces an efficientcircular approach to the fish production based on industrial symbiosis. Low temperature wasteheat from theplant is used to warm up fish farm water, ensuring faster fish growth and lowerenergy usage. The dirty water from fish farm is converted into a resource for the industrytoo. The usage of new technology, sharing resources and infrastructure presents a novelopportunity to improve the environmental footprint of fishfarm and with decreased capitalinvestments reduces production costs up to 20%. Sustainable fish can be farmed in a closedloop each year, with no nutrients released in nature.