Mike Velings
Co-Founder, Aqua-Spark | Investing in Sustainable Aquaculture
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Mike Velings is the co-founder of Aqua-Spark, a pioneering investment fund focused on sustainable aquaculture. As a lifelong entrepreneur, Velings has built successful businesses across renewable energy, clean tech, and sustainable food systems.
He is a sought-after expert on the future of food and the blue economy, using his platform to advocate for scalable solutions to global resource challenges. Velings' insights on impact investing and the commercial potential of aquaculture empower audiences to rethink conventional business models and harness technology for environmental and social good.
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The case for fish farming
We're headed towards a global food crisis: Nearly 3 billion people depend on the ocean for food, and at our current rate we already take more fish from the ocean than it can naturally replace. In this fact-packed, eye-opening talk, entrepreneur and conservationist Mike Velings proposes a solution: Aquaculture, or fish farming. "We must start using the ocean as farmers instead of hunters," he says, echoing Jacques Cousteau. "The day will come where people will demand farmed fish on their plates that's farmed well and farmed healthy -- and refuse anything less."
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