The UK Sustainable King Prawn Project* is a research and business impact project. It is exploring the potential to create a new, environment-friendly, food production sector for warm water king prawn (penaeus vannamei) in the UK.
The project focuses on indoor Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS), powered by renewable energy technologies, with circular economic principles built in at every stage. It aims to help position the UK as a global frontrunner in sustainable, land-based seafood production and to provide innovative diversification opportunities for both UK agriculture and aquaculture.
In the UK we already love eating king prawns as a healthy, high quality and tasty seafood. This project aims to transform practices on UK terrestrial farms through the production of home-grown king prawns, using indoor closed-system methods, harnessing renewable energy technologies and integrating circular-economy opportunities.
Professor Rod Wilson (Project Lead), Biosciences, University of Exeter
*This full title for this project is “Transformational blueprint for a blue economy on UK terrestrial farms: integrating sustainable shrimp production in a changing agricultural landscape“.
