CleanFish aims to disrupt the traditional processes involved in obtaining of fish products using cellular agriculture strategies based on three main innovative drivers:

1. Explore electrical stimuli and delivery of key compounds as a completely novel approach for fish cell differentiation/maturation into muscle tissues, namely studying the effect of electrical stimulation to enhance muscle cells formation.
2. Manufacturing of hybrid edible materials combining algae and fish cells for nutritional and sensorial properties enhancement. CleanFish also explores the disruptive idea of co-cultivating and/or bioprinting heterotrophic fish and autotrophic microalgae cells to simultaneously improve the organoleptic properties of the bioprinted cell-based fish meat products and potentially mitigate GHG emissions.
3. 3D bioprinting of fish tissue and optimisation for optimal deposition of adipose and muscle fish tissue able to recreate with a high precision level the fish fillet details.

CleanFish will also establish and validate methodologies to assess cellular agriculture products concerning:

• Fish fillet nutritional and sensorial characterisation as IPMA has developed extensive protocols for fish tissue characterisation, ranging from composition, histology, texture and a panel of tasters professionally trained for conventional fish food.
• Assess ecological impacts on fish cell agriculture compared to current fishing practices and aquaculture using life cycle analysis methodologies.