Proper feeding of fish is almost everything. If you have acquired the best fish seed and have the right aquatic conditions, your major worry should be feeding. Why? Because feeding expenses constitute ...

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 ...

Aquaculture, or fish farming, is the world’s fastest-growing food production sector. But the key ingredients in commercial fish feed – fishmeal and fish oil – come from an unsustainable source: small ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz’s ecological aquaculture lab won a three-year, $1 million grant from the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative at the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Researchers with UC Santa Cruz’s ecological aquaculture facility have developed a new life cycle sustainability assessment documenting the environmental benefits and impacts of using the marine ...

“It is difficult to make a business case for feeding fish on home-made meals as they only utilise about five per cent of the feed, while the rest is wasted,” says Audrey Nyambura, Skretting East ...

Farming Atlantic salmon requires a high volume of wild-caught fish as feed, but produces only a small percentage of the world's farmed fish supply. A study suggests redirecting wild-caught fish ...

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 ...

Why are there so many species of coral reef fish? According to a new study, it’s because about 50 million years ago, some ...

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 ...