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Duplicating the taste of fish would be more important, especially if it could get to sushi-grade. Fishing many larger fish is becoming unsustainable. It's also

Duplicating the taste of fish would be more important, especially if it could get to sushi-grade. Fishing many larger fish is becoming unsustainable. It's also more difficult because not only does texture matter, but the meat filters through sea water to get its taste.

DanI-S 15y ago
I think premium-quality foods are probably a bit further off, but something of similar quality to frozen supermarket tilapia is probably not too much to ask. Some countries already consume a lot of products made of processed, retextured fish protein. I love those artificial crab-sticks.
iloveyouocean 15y ago
'Fishing many larger fish is becoming unsustainable.' IT IS unsustainable. Many fisheries have already collapsed with many more collapses looming on the horizon.
- wisty 15y ago
  Also note, Math for Industry 201 always uses fish stocks as an example. Catch too many fish, and you get a suboptimal population growth - the babies that do get born do well (due to a lack of competition), but there's so few born that this doesn't really matter. It's more true for slow growing fish, like salmon, and tuna. Fun fact, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was not formed to stop whaling, but because it was obvious that whale stocks had collapsed, and international co-ordination was needed to allow them to grow back to an economic level. The whaling industry collapsed slowly, got a second wind as steam ships made fast-moving blue whales a feasible target, then collapsed again as the blue whales ran out. The IWC was formed in 1946, and it wasn't until the 70s that the anti-whaling movement gained any steam.
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wisty 15y ago
It will be fun to see how the environmental movement takes this. I bet some pragmatists will love it, some will go ballistic due to the GM nature of it, and some will maintain that we shouldn't be eating any meat, even the humanely grown substitutes.
noeltock 15y ago
Good call on sushi-grade fish, though I could imagine people still being picky about it (i.e. what's the point of eating sushi if it's not real, or tastes even 10% off).

DanI-S 15y ago

I think premium-quality foods are probably a bit further off, but something of similar quality to frozen supermarket tilapia is probably not too much to ask. Some countries already consume a lot of products made of processed, retextured fish protein. I love those artificial crab-sticks.

iloveyouocean 15y ago

'Fishing many larger fish is becoming unsustainable.' IT IS unsustainable. Many fisheries have already collapsed with many more collapses looming on the horizon.

wisty 15y ago
Also note, Math for Industry 201 always uses fish stocks as an example. Catch too many fish, and you get a suboptimal population growth - the babies that do get born do well (due to a lack of competition), but there's so few born that this doesn't really matter. It's more true for slow growing fish, like salmon, and tuna. Fun fact, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was not formed to stop whaling, but because it was obvious that whale stocks had collapsed, and international co-ordination was needed to allow them to grow back to an economic level. The whaling industry collapsed slowly, got a second wind as steam ships made fast-moving blue whales a feasible target, then collapsed again as the blue whales ran out. The IWC was formed in 1946, and it wasn't until the 70s that the anti-whaling movement gained any steam.

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wisty 15y ago

It will be fun to see how the environmental movement takes this. I bet some pragmatists will love it, some will go ballistic due to the GM nature of it, and some will maintain that we shouldn't be eating any meat, even the humanely grown substitutes.

noeltock 15y ago

Good call on sushi-grade fish, though I could imagine people still being picky about it (i.e. what's the point of eating sushi if it's not real, or tastes even 10% off).