selva shrimp kalimantan

Shrimp, crab and fish are raised in ponds without feed, fertilizers and chemicals. The restored mangroves increase the food availability and provide shelter for species to thrive – a unique nature-based seafood harvesting system!

Around 70% of the ponds’ surface is restored with native mangrove species, creating unique opportunities for blue carbon investments, all while the ponds are already generating revenues for farmers from seafood harvested.

Thousands of hectares of mangroves were lost in Kalimantan. Blueyou’s Selva Shrimp program restores the lost mangroves - increasing the ponds’ productivity and improving harvesting revenues for participating farmers. It’s a win for the community and a win for nature!

Seafood harvested in integrated mangrove forest farms comes with a very low carbon footprint, as no external feed is applied, and restored mangroves continuously capture carbon.

With Selva Shrimp, reforestation is not a nice to have, but an integral part of the business model. Restored mangroves increase the ponds’ productivity and farmers revenues, making it economically attractive to adapt the Selva Shrimp model and fostering restoration at large scale.

Do you like our Selva Shrimp? Blueyou set-up a tipping system for participating shrimp farmers that allows consumers to directly tip farmers who harvested the packed shrimp. Selva Shrimp farmers will receive 100% of the tip directly on their bank account.

Together with service provider Koltiva, Blueyou implements a fully digital traceability solution for Selva Shrimp in Kalimantan. Harvested shrimp can be tracked from ponds to finally manufactured frozen shrimp products.

A detailed set of standards define the requirements for farmers in each geography where Selva Shrimp are raised and harvested, including 3rd party certification by ISEAL approved schemes such as Organic and ASC.

Due to its low environmental impact and restorative, biodiversity-inclusive approach, shrimp and crab harvested in the Kalimantan program qualify for Blueyou’s PLANET POSITIVE product portfolio.