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Aquaculture becomes a net-positive

GreenBiz

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). You have to be engaged in aquaculture, you have to be successful in aquaculture, to be successful in seafood. By producing an increasing amount of seafood sustainably as farmers, the industry can help relieve pressure on wild stocks that might currently be overfished commercially.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood. The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors.

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3 under-the-radar forces in food

GreenBiz

Membership at Crowd Cow , a marketplace for craft meat and seafood, doubled in April alone. The backstory: This is good news from a sustainability perspective, because both companies provide additional sales channels for producers that practice organic and regenerative agriculture. Food & Agriculture. Social Justice.

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An answer to aquaculture's unsustainable fish feed habit?

GreenBiz

A third of wild stocks are overexploited , and sourcing seafood from farms should allow ocean biodiversity to recover. The larvae will feed on organic waste from the corn processing and be warmed by excess heat generated by the plant. Some large aquaculture firms, including Grieg Seafood , are already making use of this mechanism.

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Here’s how much cropland could be freed up if Americans ate half as much meat

Grist

The organization argues that if those acres weren’t used to grow crops, they could instead be transformed into carbon sinks or used to restore threatened ecosystems. That would deliver climate benefits on top of the reduction of animal agriculture’s more direct emissions sources: manure and cow burps.

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Innovative Foods: a guide to responsible investment in cell-cultured meat and seafood

EDF + Business

The emerging cell-cultured meat and seafood market has seen sustained growth in the last few years as companies seek out new opportunities for reducing their environmental impact, while providing nutritious food for growing populations. Advocate for programs that maximize the net societal benefits of cell-cultured meat and seafood products.

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Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone

Grist

Dean Blanchard Seafood, headquartered on the barrier island of Grand Isle in the Mississippi River Delta, is one of the largest shrimp suppliers in the United States. Dean Blanchard Seafood took a hit, and Blanchard later told a reporter that he estimated his business was worth 15 percent of what it was before the spill.

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