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 ...

Study suggests that aquaculture is currently inefficient, wasting important nutrients while depleting global fish stocks Farming Atlantic salmon requires a high volume of wild-caught fish as feed, but ...

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 ...

A fish farm in China is drawing attention online for its unique breeding method of feeding peppers to fish. The fish farm claims to feed up to 5,000kg of various peppers per day, which makes the fish ...

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.

A researcher in the west African country of Benin is working on how to make a better insect-based fish feed, aiming to replace more costly, less sustainable fish-meal. The global aquaculture market ...

An Omega Protein fisherman looks down at a school of menhaden caught off the coast in Virginia. Atlantic menhaden are harvested as a nutritional supplement for human and animal consumption in oils, ...

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 ...