We’re harvesting too many fish from the ocean, not just for human plates, but to feed farmed fish as well. NovoNutrients wants to replace that fish food with something more sustainable: microbes grown ...

The fish-farming industry is increasing its use of plant-based ingredients in its feed and moving away from traditional feed made from fish, a shift that could affect some of the health benefits of ...

Fish farming seems like a great idea on paper. But a host of environmental problems can plague coastal fisheries, most due to the large amounts of waste generated by these floating factory farms.

This past weekend, I tasted shrimp grown with feed made from genetically-engineered bacteria. The bacteria, which are way more interesting than the shrimp, are the brainchildren of Larry Feinberg, CEO ...

If projections hold, the global demand for animal protein will double over the next four decades, rising along with pressure to find ecologically sustainable food production practices to help combat ...

Nov. 12 (UPI) --Scientists have developed a new fish-free aquaculture feed that is cheaper, healthier and more eco-friendly than traditional feeds. The new feed, which doesn't use any fish meal or ...

Pallab Sarker and other participants in the research described in this article have received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture; the Sherman Fairchild Professorship, Dean of the Faculty ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every year almost one-fifth of the world’s wild-caught fish are dried, pressed and ground into oil and meal, the majority of which is then fed to farmed fish and crustaceans that people will eat. A ...

Of the 160 million tons of seafood that end up on people’s plates each year, 50 percent comes (pdf) from aquaculture. Growing all that salmon, tilapia and shrimp requires a steady supply of the ...