The Good Food Institute Proposal

Using Sustainability Data to Prioritize Species for Alternative Seafood Development

Project Lead:

Jen Lamy, Sustainable Seafood Initiative Manager

Executive Summary:
The Good Food Institute's Sustainable Seafood Initiative is dedicated to accelerating the development and commercialization of alternative—plant-based, fermentation-derived, and cultivated—seafood. Our team focuses on enabling foundational technical research and providing open-access resources to advance the industry.

One of those resources is ATLAS, the ArcheType Library for Alternative Seafood. As a global population, humans regularly eat well over 100 species of fish and shellfish. Choosing a species of focus can be a time-consuming process for startups, entrepreneurs, researchers, and others looking to contribute to the industry. The purpose of ATLAS is to provide both quantitative and qualitative information to inform species selection for alternative seafood to accelerate the development and commercialization of plant-based, fermentation derived, cultivated fish and shellfish.

We are in the process of rolling out an early version of ATLAS and plan to make it public by the end of 2020. An important component of the database is data on the sustainability of conventional seafood production. As of now, this data comes from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. This project would be focused on identifying new datasets related to the sustainability of conventional seafood and refining the analysis underlying the prioritization of species groups.

Key words:
Sustainable seafood, alternative meat, plant-based meat, clean meat, food science

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