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 ...

Diamond-shaped fish cages rise from the water for cleaning at Open Blue, the world’s largest open-ocean fish farm, eight miles off the Caribbean coast of Panama. The divers on top pumped compressed ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Antarctic krill fishing industry has been growing in the past two decades. The global growth of fish farming is driving the demand for ...

In their latest publication for the journal Foods, researchers from the ecological aquaculture lab at UC Santa Cruz shared a sustainable seafood innovation years in the making. Building upon many ...

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 ...

Let’s face it: farmed fish has a bad rap. And, there are some good reasons for that. Let’s take a quick look at shrimp, for instance. Shrimp makes up about a quarter of the seafood market in the U.S., ...

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 ...

What you need to know: High costs of feeds eat into profits, slow expansion and discourage farmers from entering the industry The government, working with local researchers, has started an initiative ...