Our Story

Pine Island Redfish is a land-based aquaculture development that pairs sustainable and responsible Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) technology to produce redfish (red drum). Our sustainable promise goes beyond our beloved species. Our technology repurposes waste nutrients from our fish to cultivate nutrient-rich and climate stabilizing plants.

Founded to bring our native redfish back to the seafood market without impacting our beautiful wild fishery, we have also created a more circular food system, optimizing reuse of our waste in the growth of mangroves for coastal restoration on our Florida coasts. 

We are mission driven to grow seafood you can feel great about -  where the environment thrives, consumers enjoy nutritious seafood, and coastal communities are strengthened for the future.

MANG Gear and Pine Island Redfish are working together to bring restoration and resilience to our coastal mangrove ecosystems. 

About MANG | It all started at Vestor Marine Lab in Fort Myers, fishing a stand of red mangroves, when co-founder Kyle Rossin dreamed up a mangrove camouflage that could fund planting mangroves to protect our coastal ecosystems. 

Since 2015, MANG, its amazing gear, team, and loads of volunteers have been growing mangroves by hand for all of their Florida projects. They cultivate their mangroves for two years or more before planting in the wild and water them using fresh salt water to ensure their MANGs are ready for whatever nature throws them.