AQUABATOR
Screen one · the front door

What does the Black Sea aquaculture sector actually need?

106 farms told us their constraints and their plans. This is where the platform starts — not with a directory to browse, but with a need to solve. Pick one and it routes you to the technologies that address it and the organisations behind them.

158
organisations mapped
153
technologies catalogued
106
farms with a full profile
126
open to pilot projects

What is holding farms back

Farms naming each constraint · 106 respondents, multiple answers allowed.

Where they are heading

Stated investment plans across the farm profiles.

Increase capacity60
Introduce new species38
Invest in automation & monitoring34
No major changes planned27
Move to or expand RAS14

The 14 farms moving to RAS are the natural audience for a digital-twin module — today nothing connects the two.

How they want to cooperate

Counts cover all 158 organisations, not only the farms.

Pilot projects · 126Joint research · 59Networking · 57Consulting · 55Funding access · 53Training · 53

Four in five already said yes to pilots — the platform's job is to tell them who to pilot with.

Where the library is thinnest

Farms carrying each need, divided by the technologies catalogued against it. High bars are demand the platform cannot answer — and the clearest brief for what content to source next.

Energy costs7
49 farms · 7 technologies
Access to feed2.3
25 farms · 11 technologies
Selling the product1.7
24 farms · 14 technologies
Fish health & biosecurity1.4
17 farms · 12 technologies
Access to clean water0.9
24 farms · 26 technologies

farms per catalogued technology

Depends on · the needs and plans vocabulary being stored as codes rather than display strings, so it can be counted and filtered.