aquaculture

Aquatic Farming Surpasses Fishing for First Time: UN Report

Aquatic Farming Surpasses Fishing for First Time: UN Report

For the first time, the amount of aquatic life — such as fish, clams and shrimp — that was farmed outpaced wild-caught aquatic life in 2022, according to the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In the UN’s latest The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report, it found that aquaculture, or farmed aquatic […]

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    Aquatic Farming Surpasses Fishing for First Time: UN Report

    Aquatic Farming Surpasses Fishing for First Time: UN Report

    For the first time, the amount of aquatic life — such as fish, clams and shrimp — that was farmed outpaced wild-caught aquatic life in 2022, according to the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In the UN’s latest The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report, it found that aquaculture, or farmed aquatic […]

    Thousands of Farmed Atlantic Salmon Escape Into Pacific Ocean

    Thousands of Farmed Atlantic Salmon Escape Into Pacific Ocean

    Thousands of Atlantic salmon escaped from a damaged net pen at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm off Cypress Island in Washington’s Puget Sound on Saturday, sparking fears from some that the farm-raised fish could threaten wild Pacific salmon. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) said that 305,000 salmon were in the net pen at […]

    Farmed Salmon Industry Causing Global Sea Lice Crisis

    Farmed Salmon Industry Causing Global Sea Lice Crisis

    A tiny bug is behind a major problem in the global farmed salmon industry. The sea louse, or salmon louse, is eating into farmed Atlantic salmon supplies in Scotland, Norway, Iceland and Canada, driving salmon prices higher and creating a “chemical arms race in the seas,” the Guardian reports. Salmon companies around the world are […]

    Shell Fish Farming: Is it Sustainable?

    Shell Fish Farming: Is it Sustainable?

    By Hannah Norman An otter backstrokes past the damp walkway as sea lions bark, resting on adjacent planks. Sunlight filters into the shaded labyrinth of mesh-lined cages that hang in the water column beneath Monterey’s Municipal Wharf No. 2. Inside the suspended cylinders, thousands of California red abalone are munching on freshly harvested kelp. “Welcome […]