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KvPelt🔹

330 karmaJoined Working (0-5 years)Netherlands
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Animal welfareFish welfareCrustacean welfare

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🐟 Maritime/offshore engineer working on aquatic animal welfare. Recently worked on electrical stunning in the Mediterranean and now trying to start my own electrical stunning company. Also a volunteer for a CE incubated charity working on fish welfare. Also have some background with deep sea mining.🐟

How others can help me

I'm in the process of starting an engineering startup aimed at building stunning equipment for fish and shrimp. I would love to talk to experienced entrepreneurs, engineers and fundraisers.

How I can help others

I can share info on: - My experiences with trying to launch a charity working on fish welfare in the Mediterranean. - Getting funded by the EA animal welfare fund - Deciding when or if to stop your project/charity - Discussing how to apply physical engineering skills to EA - Discuss volunteering options in animal welfare, I know some AW charities that I could connect you with. - Epic fish facts

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How we started our own EA charity (and why we decided to wrap up)
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Absolutely! Feel free to reach out at koen@piscivita.org

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How we started our own EA charity (and why we decided to wrap up)
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Thanks for the kind comment!

To add to Ren's reply:

  • I'm also still very motivated to continue working on these topics in whatever way would be useful. And if one of those is trying to start a new charity, I'm definitely willing to give that another shot.
  • Your assessment of our co-founder dynamic sounds accurate. For the past six months, I've mostly focused on general tasks with eye towards applying my maritime engineering skills later on once we got to talking with farmers. I do think that this approach has worked well for us. Early on, we did recognize a gap in sales-oriented skills, including negotiations and legal matters, which we planned to address with external help if needed.
     
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Slaughter of farmed seabass and seabream in Europe: Literature review
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Hi Lucas, thanks for the kind reply! Our current project is limited to researching and gathering information. If the findings and insights we gather during the initial six months of investigation show that there are cost-effective ways for us to help out, we will consider continuing our work. What this potential future work will look like also fully depends on our findings.

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