It was a Texas-sized shrimp dream, to breed tasty crustaceans far from shore but close to transportation hubs that would speed fresh seafood to swanky restaurants as far away as New York or Las Vegas. By Lynn Brezosky But for 17 years and despite millions of dollars in trial-and-error investment, […]
Daily Archives: August 17, 2018
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A new company, BlueNalu, intends to disrupt the seafood industry with its innovative clean meat fish product. By Jemima Webber “Clean meat” involves the use of cellular agriculture to grow real animal meat in a lab, leaving the animals alive and unharmed. The field has engineered several meat products — […]
Board of Port Commissioners continues its “Blue Economy” initiative with ecological pilot program. By Parimal M. Rohit A company seeking to demonstrate the potential of seaweed aquaculture as a source of environmental sustainability and fish farming will receive $137,000 from the Port of San Diego as part of a pilot […]
Zimbabwe’s fish exports volumes declined 12 percent between February and April 2018 from the prior comparable period due to high business costs, official figures from the Livestock and Meat Advisory Council (LMAC) show. By Herald Commercial fish farming (aquaculture) in the country is still a small industry with only a […]
Globally, about 2% of overall calorie intake and 15% of protein intake comes from seafood both wild-caught and farmed. By Chris Sworder The most recent available data on global seafood production puts the total annual amount in 2015 at 138 Mt (million metric tons), of which 60% was wild-capture landings (including […]