Fish

Johannesburg vegan restaurant Kaylee’s Eatery has figured out how to make salmon that looks, tastes, and even smells like lox using only papaya fruit. Many chefs use carrots to create vegan lox, however, the Kaylee’s Eatery team – Kaylee Gottschalk, Dan Fredman, and chef Josh Simon –  deemed the water content of the vegetable to be […]

Can you revolutionize the $120 billion seafood industry with plants? Good Catch Foods, a chef-driven, NYC-based food startup, believes that it can. “Our goal was to create a product that has the same texture, flavor, and nutritional value as real tuna – without harming our oceans and sea life,” says vegan chef Chad Sarno, co-founder […]

Popular vegetarian meat brand Linda McCartney Foods has launched vegan-friendly fish goujons. The meat-free brand – founded by the late Linda McCartney in the 1990s – made the announcement on its Instagram account. “Fish are friends, NOT food! Until now,” wrote the company. “Our NEW Vegetarian Fish Goujons are so deliciously close to the real deal, you might […]

A tuna fish executive is blaming millennials who don’t own can openers for the decline of sales. The Wall Street Journal reports that the market for canned fish is struggling. Top brands including StarKist, Chicken of the Sea, and Bumble Bee are affected by the younger generation’s disinterest in purchasing their products. Andy Mecs, StarKist’s VP […]

A twenty-year-old aspiring entrepreneur and student in Berlin is on a mission to bring her vegan caviar to the world. Isabell Altmann has combined caviar and molecular gastronomy, which makes it possible to turn oil and syrup into the form of caviar, to create a plant-based version of the premium seafood product. She calls the brand Deli […]

A new report has revealed that Canadians might have been duped into buying and eating seafood that could pose health risks. Researchers took approximately 400 samples from retailers in Vancouver, Halifax, Toronto, Victoria, and Ottawa to produce the report. It found that 44 percent of fish had been incorrectly labeled as part of what was […]

The world’s biggest animal rights organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has compiled a list of the best vegan seafood dishes in the United States. According to the organization, meals such as plant-based fish tacos, crab cakes, and mushroom calamari prove that “you can enjoy the taste of seafood while sparing intelligent, sensitive fish […]

Fish off the coast of Australia are facing rapidly declining populations, says a new study published in the journal Aquatic Conservation. Fish species including bream and snapper have declined by as much as one-third during the ten-year study period. Researchers looked at close to 200 different species of fish in more than 500 locations around Australia. According […]