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    Jerusalem Seafood Farming Startup plans to grow cell-based scallops

    • Last Update: 2022-09-20
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Seafood farming of American aquaculture experimental scallops
     
    Mermade Seafoods has set its sights on the seashell market, the high-end segment of the $100 billion global marine industry, and is developing a new "circulating cell culture technology" (cell aquaculture) to grow scallops
    .
     
    Mermade Seafoods was founded in 2021 by Daniel Einhorn as CEO, CTO Dr.
    Rotem Kadir (embryologist and microbiologist) and Dr.
    Tomer Halevy (COO and biologist with a background in stem cell derivation and breeding
    ).
     
    The company said its work will "make it possible to streamline the global scallop market and deliver high-quality, delicious products
    to society at much lower prices than is current.
    " ”
     
    Fresh scallops are one of the more expensive dishes on the menu of upscale restaurants, where they cost between
    $15 and $40 per pound of scallops at fresh fish markets in the United States.
    Most scallops come from aquaculture, but the harvest of scallops fluctuates, resulting in increased demand and limited
    supply.
     
    Although farmed meat and chicken products have entered the commercial development stage, the technology of farmed fish and seafood is still in its infancy
    .
    The company said it has developed a new method of using microalgae to help grow the cells needed for scallops, a "circular production method" that will make production and end results cost-effective and highly nutritious, a fish-vegetable symbiosis (a combination of fish and plant production), which the company calls "cell symbiosis," and has filed several patent applications for
    it.
     
    According to market research firm IMARC Group, companies developing alternative fish and seafood grew by 30 percent
    between 2017 and 2020.
     
    According to a report released in April by the Good Food Institute, at least nine new companies, most of them Israelis, were formed in 2021 to develop farmed and alternative seafood, including Mermade, Wanda Fish, Forsea Foods, Sea2Cell and E-FISHient Protein
    .
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