Jun2025 Announcement
Land ho! Wildtype is o-fish-ally on the menu at Kann!
We could think of no better partner to introduce our cultivated salmon than award-winning chef and author, Gregory Gourdet. Weekly service began in late May at his James Beard award-winning Haitian restaurant, Kann in Portland, OR. Guests are now…
May2024
Our take on Florida's recent ban of cultivated meat and seafood.
Announcement
Dec2023
Keystone: a series where we explore what else is at stake if we lose wild salmon.The salmon in our poké bowls and the leaping, silvery fish we see in National Geographic pictures, narrowly twisting past the jaws of a grizzly, almost seem like…
Education
May2023
For nearly 200 years, Pacific salmon have suffered a one-sided war of attrition. Unsurprisingly, they’re losing.Faced with record population lows, officials banned salmon fishing in California and much of Oregon last month. In 1995, over one…
Education
Press
Wildtype stories
in the news
It tasted exactly like conventional sushi-grade salmon (which arguably isn't the case with many plant-based alternatives)
Some populations of coho salmon — the species Wildtype is cultivating — are threatened or endangered.
Salmon is one of the most popular fish in the US, but farming it can cause all kinds of environmental problems.
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What we’re reading about the food industry
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With the fish numbers at historic lows, scientists, chefs and others are asking whether we should be eating them anymore, and what it means for the future of all wild salmon.
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In California, dams constructed along various rivers have disrupted traditional salmon runs and are one reason the species has been in decline for decades. And, as climate change makes everything hotter, including the rivers, salmon spawning sites are at risk.