{"id":19941,"date":"2024-01-31T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T01:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19941"},"modified":"2025-04-05T20:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:28:37","slug":"lab-grown-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lab-grown-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"What is lab-grown fish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Lab-grown fish<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is merely a type of lab-grown \u2014 or\u00a0cultivated\/ cultured \u2014 meat.<\/li>\n<li>Seafood without the sea is \u2018grown\u2019 in the same way as other cultivated meats are grown \u2014 without the need to raise and kill an animal.<\/li>\n<li>Process: Cultivated fish meat is produced by\u00a0isolating specific cells from fish and growing them in a laboratory setting using media that is free of animal components.<\/li>\n<li>The final product is expected to replicate the flavour, texture, and nutritional qualities of \u2018real\u2019 fish meat.<\/li>\n<li>Role of\u00a0Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute\n<ul>\n<li>It will focus on the\u00a0genetic, biochemical, and analytical work related to the project.<\/li>\n<li>In its cell culture lab, it will carry out research on early\u00a0cell line development of high-value marine fish species \u2014 a process that involves isolating and cultivating fish cells for further research and development.<\/li>\n<li>It will initially focus on developing cell-based meat of fish such as pomfret, kingfish, and seerfish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Recently, a number of countries have made great strides in this pioneering technology.<\/li>\n<li>Israel is the frontrunner, followed by Singapore, the United States and China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the mandate of CMFRI?<\/h3>\n<p>Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute\u2019s mandate is to conduct researches on exploited , under &#8211; and unexploited marine fisheries resources and fisheries oceanography , to advise on rational exploitation and make forecast of abundance , development and upgradation of technologies for maximising production through mariculture and conducting teaching , training and extension programmes for development of human resources in fisheries .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/how-to-grow-seafood-outside-the-sea-and-why-a-govt-lab-in-kochi-has-taken-up-this-project-9133764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>How to grow seafood outside the sea \u2014 and why a Govt lab in Kochi has taken up this project<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lab-grown fish is merely a type of lab-grown \u2014 or cultivated\/ cultured \u2014 meat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}