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Hooked Foods Raises US$600K To Fuel Plant-Based Tuna Launch Across Sweden
Hooked Foods, the Swedish food tech behind the world’s first plant-based shredded salmon, has announced that it has raised SEK 5 million (US$600,000) in funding ahead of its nationwide launch of Toona, their vegan-friendly tuna product.!-->…
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Hong Kong’s Avant Meats Closes US$3.1M Seed Round To Commercialise Cultivated Fish In 2021
Hong Kong-based Avant Meats, the city’s only startup working on cell-based protein, has just closed a US$3.1 million seed funding round. Avant received backing from prominent regional and international investors, including the chairman of!-->…
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Hong Kong’s Avant Meats Debuts Asia’s First Cultivated Fish Fillet
Hong Kong-based cell-based food tech Avant Meats has just unveiled its cultivated fish fillet in a regional first. The cultured fish fillet grown by the startup has been showcased in a cooking demonstration led by the city’s renowned!-->…
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Ocean Fish Stocks To Plummet As People Quit Meat & Choose Seafood Instead
As more people begin to lower their meat consumption, many are choosing to eat fish instead – a trend that will alarmingly speed up the rate at which our oceans will be completely depleted. Current projections say that the world’s stocks!-->…
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World Sustainability Organisation & GFI Establish New Certification For Plant-Based Seafood
The World Sustainability Organisation (WSO) and the Sustainable Seafood Initiative under the Good Food Institute (GFI) have teamed up to establish a joint certification program for plant-based seafood. It will be recognised under a new!-->…
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Asian Conservation Groups Join Global Coalition To Protect All Aquatic Animals
Several major conservation groups in Asia have joined the Coalition for Aquatic Conservation (CAC), a global movement led by the Aquatic Life Institute dedicated to protecting and improving the welfare of all aquatic animals. With most of!-->…
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Plant-Based Seafood: Hooked Secures First Funds To Launch Vegan Tuna In Nordic Market
Hooked, the Swedish food tech behind the world’s first plant-based shredded salmon, has just signed their first investor to launch their sustainable and vegan-friendly tuna product in the Nordic market. With their plant-based salmon in the!-->…
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Good Catch Foods Opens 42,500 Square Foot Plant-Based Seafood Facility
Gathered Foods, the parent company of plant-based seafood food tech Good Catch Foods, has just announced the opening of its new 42,500 square foot facility in the U.S. state of Ohio. The new manufacturing plant will produce the brand’s!-->…
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China Toughens Sustainability Rules For Fishing Fleet, But Impact Relies On Enforcement
China has revised sustainability rules governing its distant-water fishing fleet, which has often made headlines for its illegal activities. While the new rules will mean tougher penalties for fishing companies and captains that break the!-->…
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GFI Launches New Data Navigation Tool To Support Alt Seafood Innovation
Good Food Institute’s (GFI) has recently launched PISCES, a new data navigation tool that aims to serve as a one-stop resource for researchers and food tech startups pursuing plant-based and cultivated seafood alternatives. It is created!-->…
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Plant-Based Food Tech Kuleana Is Making All Your Favourite Sushi Fish-Free
San Francisco-based food tech Kuleana is developing sushi-grade plant-based fish alternatives, from bluefin tuna to salmon. Seeing a gap in the market when it comes to next-level substitutes of cuts of raw fish, the startup coming from Y!-->…
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Galápagos: The Reality Of Our Insatiable Demand For Seafood
This article is republished with permission from OceansAsia, a Hong Kong-based nonprofit organisation dedicated to ocean conservation and exposing wildlife crimes and activities that are polluting our marine ecosystems.
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Chinese Fishing Vessels Near Galápagos Raise Fears Over Wildlife Destruction
Around 260 Chinese fishing fleets were recently detected in the seas surrounding the Galápagos islands off the coast of Ecuador. The vast armarda of fishing vessels in the biodiverse Pacific islands has raised alarm bells over the fishing!-->…
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Meet The Students Working On 3D Printed Plant-Based Salmon Fillet
A team of students, known as Legendary Vish, are now developing 3D printed plant-based salmon. After working on 3D printing processes for medical technologies as a part of their doctorate projects, the group began modifying the technology!-->…
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Alt Seafood: Bumble Bee Tuna Maker Commits US$40M To Sustainability & Plant-Based Alternatives
California-based seafood producer Bumble Bee Foods has announced a US$40 million commitment over the next five years to promote sustainability and plant-based seafood alternatives. Through a dedicated Accelerator Fund, the company will!-->…
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BREAKING: Singapore Cultivated Seafood Startup Shiok Meats Secures US$3M Bridge Funding
Singapore-based food tech startup Shiok Meats has just announced that it has raised US$3 million in a bridge funding round ahead of its Series A. The company plans to use the new funds to set up its first manufacturing plant in Singapore,!-->…
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Study: Shark Fin Sold In Hong Kong Contains Dangerous Levels Of Mercury
A new study conducted by researchers from Hong Kong and the United States has found that shark fin sold in Hong Kong contains dangerously high levels of toxic mercury. All samples taken from shops in Sheung Wan tested positive for levels!-->…
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Vegan Tuna Startup Good Catch Reels In Celebrity Investment, Asia Expansion On The Line
Gathered Foods, the makers of the plant-based tuna brand Good Catch, has just announced an impressive line-up of celebrities that have recently invested in the company. Among them are Woody Harrelson, Shailene Woodley, Paris Hilton and!-->…
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Shrimp Virus To Hit China’s Seafood Industry, Another Blow To Food Security
Shrimp farmers in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have reported outbreaks of Decapod iridescent virus 1 (Div1), a virus that affects shrimp populations. The disease is not known to be harmful to humans, but can decimate shrimp!-->…
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Fish Today Contains 283 Times More Parasites Than 40 Years Ago
A new meta-analysis study by a research team at the University of Washington has revealed that fish now contains 283 times more parasitic worms than in the 1980s – which is ingested by humans when consuming raw, smoked or improperly frozen!-->…
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Green Queen 2020 Trend Predictions: Seafood As We Know It Is Dead
2020 is the year where seafood as we know it will be dead, primarily due to heightened concerns about not only the environmental impact of consuming fish and other seafood, with health and ethical concerns playing a part too. More people!-->…
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