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Meet the founder: Marica Quarsingh of Sea-Stematic on creating the ‘Tesla of Seafood’

AFN Sustainable Protein

Marica Quarsingh calls her startup Sea-Stematic the “Tesla of seafood” to communicate how she believes seafood should be produced: sustainably and with the right global benchmarks and market insights. Quarsingh talked to AFN about her goal and journey to putting Africa on the map for cellular seafood.

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Microplastics are in human testicles. It’s still not clear how they got there.

Grist

Seafood is a particularly significant source — perhaps because so much plastic pollution winds up in the ocean , where it breaks down and can be mistaken by fish for food. on May 23, 2024. So how do the microplastics get into people’s bodies? The main pathways are through food, beverages , and air.

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Op-ed: We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast From the Climate Crisis 

DeSmogBlog

When researching my book, Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation (University of California Press, 2024), I found myself wrestling with the river’s complex nature. Louisiana hosts a seafood industry dependent on a healthy estuary and an oil and gas industry threatening that ecosystem. I’m one of them.

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Alphabet moonshot Tidal heralds the age of precision aquaculture

Business Green

The market for precision aquaculture solutions is still small relative to precision agriculture - an estimated $764m by 2024. About 17 per cent of the animal protein consumed by humans comes from fish, crustaceans and mollusks, and about three billion people depend on wild-caught and farmed seafood as their primary source of protein.

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? It’s only a carbon credit if it’s from the CRCF region #186

Climate Tech VC

🥩 Pacifico Biolabs , a Berlin, Germany-based alternative seafood technology company, raised $3m in Pre-Seed funding from FoodLabs, Simon Capital, Exceptional Ventures, and Sprout and About Ventures.     ‘Alarm bells’ for supercharged 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.

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What Difference Can I Make In The Climate Crisis?

Energy Innovation

Source: Hampton and Whitmarsh, 2024. As more people choose to substitute white meat or seafood for red meat, switch to electrical vehicles and heat pumps, take public transportation, or shop for second-hand goods, our choices increasingly become a new norm. Source: Ipsos 2021, figure adapted in Hampton and Whitmarsh 2024.

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Maine Signals Readiness for Commercial-Scale Floating Offshore Wind

Energy and Cleantech Council

Support Maine’s Vital and Thriving Seafood Industries and Coastal Communities. This objective is focused on continued engagement with marine and fisheries interests, promoting transparency, identifying and minimizing potential conflicts, and advancing opportunities for shared benefits.