In her book Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappe argued more than 35 years ago that grain-fed cattle were essentially “reverse protein factories” because they required many more pounds of ...

Fish farms haven't always had the best reputation, but that seems to be changing fast. Many scientists and chefs believe fish farms may be the future of food due to a combination of factors, including ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a projection screen in front of a packed room in a coastal Maine town, computer-animated salmon swim energetically through a massive oval tank. A narrator’s voice soothingly points out water ...

The New Hampshire Seacoast has supported generations of people who have worked in the fishing industry.Today, that industry has changed dramatically thanks to lower fish populations and strict ...

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 ...