Aquaculture is critical for feeding a hungry planet, but it does not need to be as reckless as it is today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The escape of thousands of salmon from an open-pen fish farm has endangered the wild salmon population in ...

Aquaculture – the farming of fish and other aquatic organisms – is the world’s fastest-growing food production system. The sharpest growth in aquaculture is happening in Africa. Average annual growth ...

I built my livelihood on sustainable seafood by fishing and farming on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, supporting the bay and coastal communities from Maryland to Alaska that catch local, native fin and ...

Fish farming may be getting much more eco-friendly, courtesy of soybean processing wastewater. Microbes in the liquid have been used to produce proteins that could replace the fishmeal which is ...

A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming to the waters off New England by raising salmon and trout in open-ocean pens miles from land, but critics fear the plan could ...

A yellow perch in the lab. Friday fish fries are a longstanding Wisconsin tradition, especially during Lent. For years, yellow perch was a fish fry staple and could be harvested right out of the Great ...

Can mussels be the sustainable snack that saves the ocean? Serial entrepreneur Phil Cruver, who runs an innovative mussel farm six miles off the SoCal coast, says the eco-friendly shellfish should be ...

A recent investigative report claims to reveal for the first time the poor conditions, including mistreatment of fish, in some Indonesian fish farms. While activists and industry figures are at odds ...

In Kenya, small-scale onshore aquaculture combined with sustainable agroecology practices is boosting food security and incomes for smallholder farmers. Though most of these farms are quite small, a ...