Save -  Feed - Grow

At Whooshh, our guiding principles are simple.

SAVE the fish: We deploy novel products designed and developed to improve fish welfare, fish passage and spawning success.

FEED the planet: Fish provide critical nutrients for the planet’s ecosystems and are the number one protein for the people on it.

GROW clean energy: By enabling more efficient use of our water resources, we enable the growth of clean renewable energy.

Our progress has created a formidable foundation for our future growth

Hydropower is needed to meet world wide public policy clean energy goals and combat climate change

Supporting native fish populations is more critical now than ever. Native fish are an integral part of their habitats and ecosystems - playing an important role in nutrient cycles, and a crucial part of the food web (source).

Many anadromous fish like salmon, eel, and shad migrate thousands of miles to reach their native rivers and freshwater spawning grounds each year (source, source).

Now, faced with growing challenges such as climate change, inaccessible habitats, and invasive species, we've found that this crucial migration is becoming increasingly difficult.

There is an urgent need for safe, effective fish passage without also enabling access for invasive fish species that can out-compete native fish species.

Safe fish passage, no matter the environment

“ The fish pass through without so much as a scratch. Also, you won’t have to divert water, as you do in a ladder system. Out here, the economy is all about agriculture, and water is gold. That’s what makes Whooshh such a great concept.”  Mark Johnston – Yakama Nation Fisheries Biologist

We believe that supporting renewable energy is an important part of the fight against climate change, and an essential component of caring for our planet earth (source).

Hydropower is the largest producer of renewable energy in the world - so we developed a better way for hydropower and healthy native fish populations to coexist and grow (source).

Our goal is to restore native fish species to their historical numbers to feed the planet and the people on it - while simultaneously enabling hydropower producers a more efficient use of the shared water resources.

Our Passage Portal™ products permit fish to swim in on their own, and the automated FishL Recognition™ system selectively sorts the fish before they glide through our Migrator™ tubes, regardless of geography, height of obstacle, water temperatures or changing water levels,  …. all in less than a minute.

We have integrated scanning, sorting and invasive species removal features in order to enable selective fish passage. This way, we never stop collecting images and data and learning about the local habitat - and the fish who call it home.

 

Here's how it works: Fish swim in on their own, have their picture taken using our FishL Recognition™ scanner to determine among other factors, species and size. It can perform selective fish passage, ensuring only native fish swim through a fishway upstream or downstream, and it can remove unwanted or invasive species.

The maximum capacity of one Passage Portal™ is 40 fish per minute or 57,600 fish per day, more than many rivers see in an entire year. In short, we enable fish to easily transport themselves over barriers without stress or injury, all in a flexible, misted, temperature-controlled Migrator tube. Fish float over land or infrastructure barriers from point A to Point B in seconds, without requiring huge amounts of water and power as is often required for traditional systems.

From 2021 to 2022, our revenue grew by 157% 

We began generating significant revenue in 2020 after completing our R&D on our first generation Passage Portal™.  That year we achieved a net profit for the first time. We recognized  $5.6 million in revenue, with an EBIDTA of $2.82 million and a gross margin over 60%.

With Covid 19 shutdowns, project delays, and travel restrictions in 2021, our product and service revenue was hit hard.  2022 business revenue is rebounding and revenue in the first half of 2022, as of August is already 157% more than the entirety of 2021 revenue. 

With the U.S. federal government's passage of the $1+Trillion dollar infrastructure bill (source), and more recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (which favors climate, energy, health care, and taxes and the lifting of Covid restrictions) we expect 2023 and the next 10 years will continue to see robust growth.

Our customers already include:

Our technology changes the public narrative about dams and fish passage while offering a win-win solution

Our systems are modular, flexible, and cost a fraction of the amount required to build and operate a custom civil engineered solution, for a better, safer, faster, migration for native fish without spilling water.

Our systems assist native fish to pass over dams in seconds to reclaim access to their spawning grounds. This means fish expend far less energy, experience less stress, and are therefore reaching cleaner, safer, water and spawning habitat, with fewer pre-spawning mortalities.

We also do not require concrete infrastructure or any extra, unnecessary use of water or impose a permanent environmental footprint.

Our gentle handling of fish without producing waste water, reduces injuries, mortalities, and stress - overall improving survivability, fecundity, and ultimately our product value.