Ocean Era - formerly Kampachi Farms - Kampachi Farms is an Hawaii-based mariculture company focused on expanding the sustainable production of the ocean's finest fish. Founded by former executives of the pioneering Hawaiian open ocean aquaculture company Kona Blue Water Farms, with the goal of continuing the innovative research that was ongoing at KBWF and leveraging scientific discoveries to advance commercial Kampachi production. Kampachi Farms has developed a novel aquaculture system -- called an Aquapod -- that is attached to a barge in the open ocean, where the currents are strong enough to flush the waste and pests away, reducing the need for antibiotics and vaccines. A new commercial growout site in Bahia de La Paz, MX allows efficient, scalable, commercial production of high-value sashimi-grade Kampachi in close proximity to the product's primary markets. Committed to advancing the cause of safe, responsible and sustainable mariculture in the US and having successfully conducted the first-ever trial of open-ocean aquaculture in U.S. Federal Waters with the Velella Project, Kampachi Farms aims to further develop offshore technologies that will facilitate the expansion of responsible mariculture in the U.S. and globally, such as deepwater mooring and farmsite automation capabilities.
