Fish maw — the swim bladder of a fish — is one of the most expensive dried-seafood products in the world. A Chinese delicacy, it can fetch $450 to $1,000 per kilogram.

Avant Meats fish maw in a soup on Sept. 14, 2021. Aria Chen and Abhishyant Kidangoor–TIME. Fish maw is mostly eaten on special occasions; I tried it years ago at a friend’s wedding banquet dinner.

Hong Kong-based Avant Meats offered a public tasting of cultivated fish, which its scientists had grown in their laboratory using the cells of real fish. Startups around the world are racing to ...

Assuming fish maw accounts for the majority of fish by-products, in 2020, Brazil exported 637 tonnes of fish maw, a 398 percent increase on the 127 tonnes in 2012, the first year for which data is ...

The fish dies in transit after about 12 hours, as oxygen reserves supplied by a saltwater-soaked padded envelope are depleted. But for several hours more, its flesh behaves as if it were still ...

A surging market for ‘fish maw’ is pushing threatened species to the brink. Researchers are trying to limit the damage.

Trading in fish maw which has high demand in lucrative foreign markets such as China, has been limited to factory owners only which has locked out Ugandan fishermen .

Parliament has approved an 8% tax levy on fish maw exports following the passing of the Fish (Amendment) Bill, 2021. The purpose of this levy is to try to balance the boat and retain some money in ...

He says in the early 1990s, Nile perch fish maw would be fried and eaten by locals. But lately, the Chinese market has made it more lucrative, especially for the exporter.

Uganda’s fish maw export earnings rose up from 41.14 metric tonnes in 2011 to 531.6 metric tonnes in 2018, fetching about Shs197.5b. Mr Sempijja said the unscrupulous foreign fish maw exporters, ...

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