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 ...

Fish farming is most lucrative in places where there are fish; coastal states like California or Louisiana. But in the middle of rural Arizona, where water isn’t as easy to come by, one farmer has ...

Aquaculture refers to the farming of aquatic organisms, including finfish, crustaceans, mollusks, plants, and algae for human use. It has been practiced by cultures around the globe for millennia.

As global demand for seafood continues to surge and capture fisheries plateau, fish farming — or aquaculture — presents a promising path to achieving food security, economic growth, and a sustainable ...

Gunjur, a town of some fifteen thousand people, sits on the Atlantic coastline of southern Gambia, the smallest country in mainland Africa. In the spring of 2017, the town’s white-sand beaches were ...

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 ...

Efforts to reduce malnutrition have resulted in 200 million fewer hungry people worldwide since 1990. But 805 million people still deal with chronic hunger every day. In the fight against poverty and ...

Ghalioun Project is one of the largest fish projects in Egypt and the Middle East and Africa, but one of the largest fish farming projects all over the world. The dream of establishing the largest ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A tidal wave of interest is building in ...