Fish farming is most lucrative in places where there are fish; coastal states like California or Louisiana. But in the middle of rural Arizona, where water isn’t as easy to come by, one farmer has ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2022, fish farms produced an unprecedented 131 million tons of seafood, officially ...

There are a lot of myths around farm-raised fish, but is it actually worse than the wild caught stuff? Here's what you need ...

THE RUGGED, chilly coast of northern Norway, beyond the Arctic Circle, is not usually thought of as prime agricultural land. But far down a dead-end road on the shores of Skjerstad Fjord sits Salten ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In Kenya, small-scale onshore aquaculture combined with sustainable agroecology practices is boosting food security and incomes for smallholder farmers. Though most of these farms are quite small, a ...

Swai fish can contain high levels of antibiotics and chemicals, while other types of fish may provide better nutrients. Swai farming practices also raise environmental concerns. Swai fish (Pangasius ...