AQUA Fish-Free Seafood Makes a Splash on Restaurant Menus

November 14, 2024 AQUA Cultured Foods

AQUA Tuna is vegan, allergen-free, pregnancy-safe, and packed with fiber. Along with AQUA Scallops, the fermentation-derived products are free of microplastics, mercury, and everything in between. Plus, they offer a six-week shelf life refrigerated—in stark contrast to the three or four-day window for conventional seafood.

Aptar – Food Protection Expands Active Packaging System for Seafood into E-Commerce Category

August 13, 2024 Aptar–Food Protection

Aptar–Food Protection, part of AptarGroup, Inc. and a leader in active material science food safety solutions, has expanded its SeaWell active packaging system into the e-commerce category. Already utilized by major retailers across the U.S., the novel active packaging solution – designed to help maintain seafood freshness, quality and aesthetics – has now been adopted for direct-to-consumer shipping of various seafood items including filets, whole fish and shellfish like crab legs, scallops and shrimp.

AQUA Cultured Foods Partners with Ginkgo Bioworks to Optimize Alt-Seafood Production

March 27, 2024 AQUA Cultured Foods

AQUA has chosen Ginkgo to help optimize its innovative fermentation technology to elevate the quality of its fish-free seafood products that authentically replicate the look, feel, and taste of fresh-caught seafood. Leveraging Ginkgo’s microbial characterization and analytics, along with AQUA’s proprietary strains and processes, the partners aim to transform the future of alt-seafood production.

A Day On the Ocean With Maine’s Tough Winter Scallopers

Though often romanticized for tourists and marketing, there’s little glamor in the work of a Maine fisherman — especially in the dead of winter, when the state’s scalloping season takes place.

Fishing for Scallops When the Scallops Are Nearly All Dead

Peconic Bay scallops are as delicate as they are delicious. But at the moment, most of the adult scallops in Peconic Bay are dead.