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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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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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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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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.

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Catering firm Compass Group to ban fruit and veg flown to UK by plane

Business Green

In addition to banning the use of air-freighted fruit and vegetables, Compass said it would also be removing seafood from its supply chain that is ranked at the bottom end of Marine Conservation Society's (MSC) sustainable-sourcing scale, and would switch to only using free-range eggs.

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Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap Expected in Early 2023; Here’s Why the OSW Industry Should Take Note

Energy and Cleantech Council

Support Maine’s Vital and Thriving Seafood Industries and Coastal Communities. Leverage and expand Maine’s capabilities in Artificial Intelligence, data science, and robotics. Collaboratively research co-generation technologies, clean fuels, carbon capture, and storage. Strengthen and facilitate robust engagement.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

The British market for plant-based food is already one of the largest in Europe, with some estimates expecting meat-free sales to exceed £1.1bn in 2024, up from £582m in 2014. It has been getting easier. We have seen an increase in our plant-forward sales and the feedback from customers has been fantastic.".