FoodTech start-up Wanda Fish Technologies, Ltd. has signed two agreements with Tufts University to advance the company’s goals in the emerging field of cultivated fish. Under a licensing agreement, Wanda Fish gains exclusive rights to certain intellectual property in fish cell cultivation developed by Tufts researcher David Kaplan, a leader in the field of cellular agriculture. Additionally, a two-year sponsored research agreement with the university supports Kaplan’s research into cellular agriculture-based production of fish tissue. Taken together, the moves will significantly propel Wanda Fish’s strategies for producing sustainable, tasty, cultivated fish fillets.
Approximately 20% of the protein currently consumed by the global population emanates from the ocean. As a highly satiating, nutritionally dense food source, the appetite for seafood, and especially fish, is only projected to keep growing. This is putting increasing strain on the existing seafood industry to keep up, not to mention already overfished waterways.