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 ...

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 ...

An aquaculture professional dives into a fish cage to check on cobia at Open Blue Sea Farms in Panama. Tyler Sclodnick. University of Miami A boat traveling southwest from Sarasota into the Gulf of ...

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 ...

Business models for fish farming, or aquaculture, include high-intensity production in controlled conditions, use of existing ponds and waterways, and production in cages submerged in large bodies of ...

Wild-caught fish often have more omega-3s and other minerals as compared to farm-raised fish. However, when it comes to nutrition, species and location often matter more than whether fish are wild or ...

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 ...

Simon Spichak finished his MSc at University College Cork, where he studied the interactions between the microbes in the gut and the brain. He became interested in science communication during his ...