An Atlantic salmon. Bluu Seafood hopes to use fish cells to produce a lab-grown alternative to preserve fish populations in the oceans.An Atlantic salmon. Bluu Seafood hopes to use fish cells to produce a lab-grown alternative to preserve fish populations in the oceans.
You can maintain the same nutritional benefits, but without the possible microplastics or other contamination “When we told our taxi driver that we were working on cultivated fish, he said ‘I know that, it’s the future. Many chefs would like to put it on the menu here.’” “Fish has a ‘health halo’,” says Kell. “But there is a growing awareness that seafood is not sustainable. In the EU there is certainly a question over diminishing fish stocks, and cultivated seafood could benefit from that.”between how much seafood people want and what can be supplied. One sign of a serious search for an alternative source of production, adds Kell, is a major EU research project called Feasts, funded by the Horizon programme, that included cultivated fishPrototype fish balls.
“If the holy grail is to match price parity with conventional animal products, then there is a narrower gap for say tuna or salmon ,” says Kell. for a pound of traditional chicken. Bluu Seafood estimates a portion of its fish balls will cost about $20 in restaurants, compared with $15 for the regular version.