Carter Newell owns and operates one of the most productive mussel farms in the state of Maine. One frigid spring morning I joined him and his two-person crew on a short boat ride to the barge he calls ...

One of the great ironies of salmon farming lies in the fact that even though the salmon themselves aren't wild-caught, their feed is partially made up of smaller fish that are. According to new ...

Farming Atlantic salmon requires a high volume of wild-caught fish as feed, but produces only a small percentage of the world's farmed fish supply. A study suggests redirecting wild-caught fish ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2022, fish farms produced an unprecedented 131 million tons of seafood, officially ...

Researchers with UC Santa Cruz’s ecological aquaculture facility have developed a new life cycle sustainability assessment documenting the environmental benefits and impacts of using the marine ...

Feeding livestock and farmed fish agricultural waste and other food system by-products could substantially increase food available for humans without using up more land for farming. With the human ...

If it still seems strange to think of fish growing on farms, it shouldn’t. Aquaculture has been the fastest growing food sector in the world for decades, and people now eat more farmed fish than wild ...

Overfishing has put exorbitant stress on our oceans. But there is a solution: Aquaculture—otherwise known as fish farming—is the practice of growing and harvesting fish in a controlled, regulated and ...

Aidan Connolly is the President of AgriTech Capital, a food/farm futurologist, and has a new book out soon, The Future of Agriculture. Fish have very specific dietary needs. In the wild, large fish ...

GEITA: THE government has unveiled plans to construct a fish feed production plant in Mwanza, an initiative aimed at reducing production costs for fish farmers using cagefarming systems and boosting ...