An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. (NOAA) Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by ...

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 ...

Last year, Washington officials ended commercial fish farming in state waters — in the long wake of a massive spill of nonnative Atlantic salmon into the Salish Sea, the inland marine waters of ...

SARASOTA COUNTY (WFLA) — For the last seven years, Hawaii-based Ocean Era has been working to bring a fish farm demonstration to Florida’s Gulf Coast. Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

HOMESTEAD — Salmon farms normally occur in the fjords of Norway or Chile, not on the hot, humid flats next to the Everglades. But Atlantic Sapphire, a new type of on-land salmon farm, is betting on ...

If you’re picturing a land-based fish farm surrounded by barbed wire and “Do Not Enter” signs, think again. In Denmark, plans have been unveiled for what’s being called the world’s first circular fish ...

Caviar and crawfish from the Carolinas--who knew? WRAL's latest documentary, Fish Farms, explores one of North Carolina’s best kept secrets. Aquaculture, or the farming of fish and seafood, is a ...

Americans import 90 percent of their seafood, 50 percent of which comes from aquaculture, but permitting remains a barrier to expanding offshore fish farms. Submersible net pens at Blue Ocean ...