The village shop welcomes its customers on a board at the entrance and tempts them with hearty meat loaf, while across the street the Schmankerlhof Oberwirt promises “culinary delights and cosiness”. There is a strong smell of homeland and cow dung in the Upper Bavarian picture-book village of Langenpreising, and it is God's will, which is why the dead proudly say goodbye to the afterlife as "farmer" and "farmer's wife" on their gravestones around the onion church tower - and probably wondered if they were still alive Experience that on this side of Langenpreisinger a few hundred meters further in an unadorned, mouse-gray factory hall, a maritime human question could be decided: nothing less than the future and fate of global oceanic fisheries,which in turn has to do with the expropriation of Jewish variety theaters in National Socialist Berlin.

Jakob Strobel y Serra

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Fabian Riedel wrote his legal history doctoral thesis on this subject, did research at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich and often visited a friend who lived nearby and raised crabs in plastic buckets at home. That should also work in a professional setting with shrimp, thought Riedel, who no longer wanted to be fobbed off with the tasteless, antibiotic-contaminated mass-produced goods from Bangladesh or Vietnam. And so he founded the company Crusta Nova in 2012, brought together the expertise of marine biologists, water cycle specialists and ventilation experts, recreated their tropical habitat for his shrimps, repeatedly accepted mandates because money was initially notoriously tight, and thus earned a doctorate in law to the pioneer of land-based aquaculture in Europe.

Secret ingredients in the Upper Bavarian groundwater

Crusta Nova has been producing White Tiger prawns since 2016, most recently thirty tons per year.

In eight tanks on two floors, one hundred thousand crustaceans grow to maturity for five months at a constant thirty degrees Celsius and eighty percent humidity.

Riedel had its food specially developed from wheat, peas, soybean oil and fish meal, and the first attempts to feed insects to the White Tiger will soon begin.

You swim in Upper Bavarian groundwater, which is mixed with a mixture of sea salt, potassium, calcium, magnesium, trace elements and a few secret ingredients and continuously cleaned by bacterial cultures, which is why it never has to be completely replaced.

The bacteria neutralize the toxic ammonium that the shrimp excrete, thus not only keeping the water clean, but also keeping the crustaceans' immune systems so intact that the use of antibiotics and other chemicals can be completely dispensed with - the white tiger feels comfortable Obviously Upper Bavaria as well as in the Mekong Delta or in the Sundarbans.