New forms of aquatic foods: Exploring plant-based and cell-based seafood

Seafood, including aquatic animals, like fish and crustaceans, and plants such as seaweeds, are crucial to the food, nutrition, and economic security of an increasing number of people around the world. As the demand for aquatic foods grows rapidly, the intensification of aquaculture and capture fisheries efforts has also increased, causing great stress to both land and water ecosystems.  As a study conducted by the World Resource Institute points out, the sustainability of the aquaculture and fisheries sector and its ability to close the food system gap by 2050 is one of the global challenges that need to be addressed.… Read the rest