Seafood and chicken next for plant-based food entrepreneurs who are aiming to slow overfishing, climate change
- OmniSeafood’s line of six plant-based products, including fish fillets, deep-fried golden fillets, minced tuna, and crabmeat aims to slow seafood consumption
- Another company keen to help save the planet by jumping into the plant-based protein race is Next Gen, which is offering Tindle – ‘chicken made from plants’
The Netflix documentary Seaspiracy claims that, with current fishing practices, there could be no more fish in the oceans by 2048.
While some marine scientists say a fishless ocean is an unlikely scenario, related issues such as overfishing, microplastics found in seafood and other types of pollution are serious concerns for people who are mindful of the seafood they eat.
At a presentation at the Cordis Hong Kong hotel on World Ocean Day last month, he gave some sobering statistics: in 1950, annual global seafood consumption was 20 million tonnes; 70 years on, it has ballooned to 180 million tonnes.
“Can the ocean endlessly supply food to us?” Yeung asked. “The problem is there is no way the ocean and the world can keep up with that kind of appetite we have been building.”
