Before we got the Lobster Pod we were using a home-made set up consisting of a storage tank, air filters, and a garden pond pump with box filter (not ideal!). Working with this set up posed many challenges, including mainly struggling with trying to get the stock out easily. As the lobsters were all in…
Our founder and Sea-E-O, Errin Todd, won the Innovator of the year Award at the Business Women Scotland and Women’s Enterprise Scotland Awards held in Glasgow on 2nd November 2018. There was tough competition from our friends: Alex Feechan, Findra Clothing (fabulous active wear for ladies based in Innerleithen, Scottish Borders and a shop in…
Our founder and Sea-E-O, Errin Todd, was recently invited by Women’s Enterprise Scotland to attend the Entrepreneurial Conference in Gleneagles. Whilst networking and listening to the amazing speakers who included cyclist Mark Beaumont, social entrepreneur Paul from Gandy’s London and the star of the day, neuroscientist Dr Vivienne Ming she met up with Rob McLaren…
We are chuffed to bits that our annual exhibition in Aberdeen has already resulted in two sales! We sold the display Lobster Pod, which at 300Kg shellfish capacity is the highest volume per square metre of any shellfish system, at the Skipper Expo. John Arthur (known locally as Arthur) and his grandson Scott Nicol from…
Although we often refer to our shellfish systems as Lobster Tanks they are are also excellent at storing crabs and langoustine. Crab have slightly different requirements to lobster. They can make the seawater in the tank very mucky so we tend to have a larger mechanical filter. Â They produce more physical waste so we ensure…
As many of you will know we have applied for an international patent for the Lobster Pod live shellfish storage and vivier system. We are a stage nearer to the patent being approved and are very excited about this. Â Our PCT application has now gone to the territories we wish to pursue and we await…
We recently spoke to Malcolm at Mermaid Seafoods in Llandudno, Wales as his Lobster Tank is coming up to it’s 2nd anniversary. This is the time to do an annual service and we try to make this as easy for possible for our customers by giving them a call and making sure we have all…
Many of our customers store Canadian lobsters in their Lobster Tanks and Lobster Pods during winter. The UK lobster fishery is very quiet during winter. Â Smaller boats come on land for maintenance as the weather means that it is rarely safe enough for them to fish. Â Many lobster fishermen will change to other species e.g.…
In 2016 we sold lots of different Shellfish Holding Systems but the most popular was our new 300Kg capacity Lobster Pod. The 300Kg Lobster Pod has the highest capacity of shellfish on the smallest footprint of any of the systems we manufacture. Â The Pod has many benefits over the traditional tanks including the ability to…
Chloramine is a mixture of chlorine and ammonia and is being used more often in the UK to disinfect tap water. We are aware of customers in London, Birmingham and St Abbs in the Scottish Borders where the local water authority add chloramines to the water for disinfection and we are sure there are other…