Fish Cell and Tissue Culture

Description

The evolution of fish cell and tissue culture follows a progression in time and complexity. Fish cell and tissue culture has been predominantly concerned with material from teleosts. Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as mollusks, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms. The term is not normally applied to catching farmed fish, or to aquatic mammals, such as whales where the term whaling is more appropriate. With growing interest in cellular agriculture as a means to address public health, environmental, and animal welfare challenges of animal agriculture, the concept of producing seafood from fish cell- and tissue-cultures is emerging as an approach to address similar challenges with industrial aquaculture systems and marine capture. Cell-based seafood—as opposed to animal-based seafood—can combine developments in biomedical engineering with modern aquaculture techniques. This book is provides an overview of the techniques for the preparation and maintenance of fish cell cultures and also presents a more comprehensive view of the broad range of current and potential uses of such cell cultures.