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Happy World Oceans Day! To celebrate our favorite day of the year, we're adding some new animals to our illustration collection (created by the amazing Norio Fujikawa). Introducing our orcas, otters, and sea lions - AKA wild salmon's biggest fans. Pacific salmon play a key role linking oceans to rivers, transporting essential nutrients to each environment. Dozens of other species directly depend on healthy salmon populations to survive. The oceans are made up of many complex, perfectly balanced ecosystems like these, and they need our protection more than ever. ??What marine creatures should Norio draw for us next?

Huge congratulations to our friends at GOOD Meat for this accomplishment - the first-ever retail launch of a cultivated product! In Singapore, their cultivated chicken is now available to buy and eat at home. We're feeling peckish just thinking about it. ?? Link: https://lnkd.in/ebk2BGHy

This week, Florida banned cultivated meat and seafood. It's disappointing - we generally prefer fish-mongering over fear-mongering ?? But we’ll continue to do what we do every day: fight to defend Earth’s wild places by inspiring a transition to clean, accessible seafood. Stay tuned! Read our full take here: https://lnkd.in/gfzp5xyC

?? We had a blast cell-ebrating our industry's inception with Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA) last week!

Best fishes ?? to our friends at Vow as they debut in Singapore next week! We're so proud to see our industry continue to make incredible progress. Link: https://lnkd.in/dtt927mY

Next up in Wildtype Book Club: Kiki! Kiki is a Senior Research Associate here at Wildtype. She spends her days running, crafting, and shepherding our cells through the earliest stages of their growth!?Thanks Kiki ????

California’s wild salmon stocks are on life support. For the second year in a row, commercial fishing is at risk of being shut down due to dismal population counts. Learn more about the future of salmon fishing in California here: https://lnkd.in/gVB2G2ci

Sushi is our first favorite food but Pi is a close second! Happy Pi Day ??

Bottom trawling: a common fishing method in which huge weighted nets are dragged over the ocean floor. It’s bad for obvious reasons (it decimates delicate marine life, like corals) and for more pernicious, complex ones (it exposes pollutants that have been contained in the ocean muck for eons). A new study shows that trawling releases over 370 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. For context, the United Kingdom’s total carbon emissions in 2021 was 360 metric tons. Options beyond industrial fishing, like cultivated seafood, can help lighten the load and give our wild places a chance to recover. Link: https://lnkd.in/gdS3D_S8

Our crewmates went to cheer on the home team: the wild coho salmon of central California! These fish traveled hundreds of miles in search of a safe place to lay their eggs. Viable spawning habitat is increasingly rare, thanks to climate change, habitat encroachment, and dam construction. They need all the support they can get! Thank you to Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) for the marvelous tour and sharing your knowledge about these incredible fish.