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Shinkei’s humane, quality-preserving fish-harvesting tech could upend the seafood industry
Shinkei raised $6 million to help it go from pilot to production, with a goal of 10 machines in actual use by the end of the year.
Founder Saif Khawaja told me that in the time since then, Shinkei has refined its machines to be more reliable, moving away from a water-based spike to a mechanical one, along with other improvements one makes when going from a prototype to a production unit. Shinkei is also working on a second machine that performs a second office, essentially destroying the spinal cord so that there’s no trace of the central nervous system left — one step closer to a fillet. Khawaja mentioned that a billion pounds of salmon alone were sent to China to be processed, because it doesn’t make financial sense to do it here where people demand higher wages.
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