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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001603978-24-000074"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AQB"
cik: "0001603978"
company_name: "AQUABOUNTY TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T04:43:28.416451+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AquaBounty to cease fish farming operations; wind down Bay Fortune facility

## Summary
- CEO David Melbourne resigned Dec 6, 2024; David Frank appointed Interim CEO/CFO.
- Company will cull all remaining fish and reduce substantially all personnel over next several weeks.
- COO Alejandro Rojas and CPO Melissa Daley departed with elimination of their positions.
- Efforts to raise capital for over a year failed; insufficient liquidity to continue operations.
- Will continue to assess alternatives for Ohio farm project and market assets for cash.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001603978-24-000074
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AQB
- cik: 0001603978
- company_name: AQUABOUNTY TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1603978/000160397824000074/0001603978-24-000074-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1603978/000160397824000074/aqb-20241206x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001603978-24-000074.txt

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