What is lab-grown fish?
31-01-2024
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Overview:
Recently, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has entered into a collaborative research agreement with a private-sector start-up offering cultivated meat technology solutions to grow fish meat in the laboratory.
About Lab-grown fish
- It is merely a type of lab-grown — or cultivated/ cultured — meat.
- Seafood without the sea is ‘grown’ in the same way as other cultivated meats are grown — without the need to raise and kill an animal.
- Process: Cultivated fish meat is produced by isolating specific cells from fish and growing them in a laboratory setting using media that is free of animal components.
- The final product is expected to replicate the flavour, texture, and nutritional qualities of ‘real’ fish meat.
- Role of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
- It will focus on the genetic, biochemical, and analytical work related to the project.
- In its cell culture lab, it will carry out research on early cell line development of high-value marine fish species — a process that involves isolating and cultivating fish cells for further research and development.
- It will initially focus on developing cell-based meat of fish such as pomfret, kingfish, and seerfish.
- Recently, a number of countries have made great strides in this pioneering technology.
- Israel is the frontrunner, followed by Singapore, the United States and China.
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Q1) What is the mandate of CMFRI?
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute’s mandate is to conduct researches on exploited , under - and unexploited marine fisheries resources and fisheries oceanography , to advise on rational exploitation and make forecast of abundance , development and upgradation of technologies for maximising production through mariculture and conducting teaching , training and extension programmes for development of human resources in fisheries .
Source: How to grow seafood outside the sea — and why a Govt lab in Kochi has taken up this project