Northbay Innovations is committed to a healthy earth.

We believe that most people in the UK share our commitment, but lack the options needed to live sustainably. It’s hard for individuals to reduce plastic use when every vegetable we buy is individually wrapped in plastic. It’s hard to reduce our carbon footprint when even the local food we buy is inefficiently stored and transported.

At Northbay Innovations Ltd., we’re creating new ways to do things on land and water, with an eye to healthy people, healthy oceans and a healthy earth. We know that for communities to embrace sustainable methods of doing things, those methods must be convenient, affordable and make sense.

At any given time, the team at Northbay Innovations is developing multiple products or systems. We regularly collaborate with research and funding organizations, commercial entities and local communities to make change happen.

Biodiversity

Sustainability

Community

Richard Land

Lead Innovator

Richard has extensive experience in sustainable aquaculture across North America, the UK and Europe, translating innovative concepts into commercially scalable technologies. He is the innovator behind Aquahive and the Lobster Cube and continues to lead Northbay’s development of hatchery, on-growing and marine restoration technologies.

His current work includes next-generation live shellfish transport systems, improving animal welfare, environmental control and traceability, with the longer-term ambition of enabling controlled containerised transport of live lobster, crab and other shellfish over greater distances.

Dennis Gowland

Marine Biologist

Dennis has over 30 years’ experience in shellfish aquaculture, specialising in bivalve mollusc and crustacean hatcheries, stock recovery and marine restoration. He has led 18 major research projects covering genetics, disease, shellfish health and food safety, and has provided specialist input to lobster hatchery programmes across North America and Europe. His current work focuses on native oyster restoration, innovative settlement and deployment technologies, biodiversity recovery, and developing scalable community-based approaches to marine restoration.