Aquaculture

Red Lobster Owners To Build World's First Commercial Lobster Farm

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Lobster Farming, Aquaculture, Red Lobster, Video, Red Lobster Farm, Red Lobster Darden Aquafarm, Lobster Farm Malaysia, Darden Aquafarm, Lobster, Darden Restaurants, Food News

Lobster is one of the world's last great wild foods. But wildness isn't exactly a cherished quality in the business world. So when the executives of D...

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Many Salmon In The Wild Aren't Actually Wild

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Wild Salmon Hatcheries, Salmon, Aquaculture, Video, Wild Salmon, Chinook Salmon, Chinook Salmon Population, Salmon Aquaculture, Chinook Salmon California, Food News

Four years ago, the once-mighty Chinook salmon runs in California and Oregon were so small that the states agreed to an unprecedented moratorium on fi...

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Fishing for Labels

Wendy Gordon | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Aquaculture, Fda, Just Label It, Organic, Ge-Salmon, Genetically Modified Organisms, Green News

Let's take the stigma out of labels and have them do what they do best -- inform consumer choice.

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Deadly Salmon Virus Spreads

AP | By PHUONG LE | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Salmon, Aquaculture, Video, Fish Farming, Salmon Virus, Farmed Salmon, Salmon Anemia Aquaculture, Salmon Anemia Deadly, Salmon Anemia, Deadly Salmon Virus, Salmon Anemia Virus, Food News

SEATTLE -- Scientists in Washington state are working to improve testing of a deadly, contagious marine virus as a precaution, after the virus was det...

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Lethal Virus Spreads From Salmon Farms Into Open Ocean

New York Times | CORNELIA DEAN and RACHEL NUWER | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Salmon Risks, Aquaculture, Salmon Anemia, Farmed Salmon Virus, Salmon Virus, Salmon Farming, Farmed Salmon, Farmed Salmon Anemia, Food News

A lethal and highly contagious marine virus has been detected for the first time in wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest, researchers in British Colum...

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New High-Rise Fish Tank Paves Way For Safer Aquaculture

AP | By ARTHUR MAX | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Aquaculture, Raising Fish, Fish Farming, New Fish Farming Tanks, Fish Farming Methods, Tank Aquaculture, Closed Container Aquaculture, High Rise Fish Tank Aquaculture, Aqua Culture, New Fish Tank 2011, Food News

KAMPERLAND, Netherlands -- Adri Bout trawled Dutch waters for 25 years until he recognized the ocean's limits. Now he raises 100 tons of turbot a year...

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Farmed Salmon Threaten Wild Stocks With Deadly Sea Lice

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Good Salmon, Salmon, Aquaculture, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Fish Farming, Sea Lice, Farmed Salmon, Farmed Salmon Environmental Safety, Sea Lice Farmed Salmon, Food News

Farmed salmon present a serious threat to the survival of wild salmon stocks in the form of tiny sea lice, according a new study by Martin Krkosek of ...

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Researcher Uses Light To Grow Bigger Crawfish

AP | By JANET McCONNAUGHEY | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Crawfish Raising, Aquaculture, Louisiana, Crayfish Growing, Crayfish, Crawfish, Raising Crawfish Light, Bigger Crawfish Light, Food News

NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana researcher looking into ways to produce more and bigger crawfish in the same space said she's had success with lighting the...

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Fish Farming The Solution To Global Food Woes, Report Says

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Aquaculture, China Aquaculture, Global Fishing Stocks, Fishery Depletion, Fish Farms, Overfishing, CHina Food, Impact of Eating Meat, Fish Stocks, Food News

It's no secret that wild fish stocks are in bad shape. Many species are on the verge of collapse, or even extinction. The overfished have, mercifully,...

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'Oyster Reefs Are Disappearing: Foodies Fine, Ocean Sad'

Peter Hanlon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aquaculture, Oyster Reef, Fish Farming, Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay, Oysters, Sustainable-Fisheries, New York, Seafood, Shellfish, Food News

85 percent of oyster reefs have been lost globally. In many bays, once-plentiful oyster reefs are now functionally extinct. But shellfish lovers shouldn't panic -- most of the oysters they eat today are farmed.

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The Future of Seafood? Farming Siberian Sturgeon For More Than Just Caviar

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Raised, Aquaculture, Nyc, Petrossian, Caviar, Research, Skeeternyc, Green, Food Curated, Featured, Liza deGuia, Caviar Houses, Mote Marine, Good Food, Sustainable, Video, Restaurants, Fish, Sarasota, Environment, Documentary, Food, Siberian Sturgeon, Florida, Fishing, Beluga, Sturgeon, Seafood, Food News

Meet Jim Michaels, of Mote Marine Laboratory's Siberian Sturgeon Program. Jim has been working for over a decade on an eco-friendly and sustainable solution for growing farm-raised sturgeon.

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Fishing Restrictions Hurt Louisiana's Meal and Oil Processors

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Omega Protein Corp., Aquaculture, Menhaden, LSU AgCenter, Livestock, Fish Oil, Fishmeal, Plaquemines Parish, Noaa, Omega-3 Supplements, Gulf Oil Spill, Daybrook Fisheries, Fishing Boats, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Green News

Boats searching for menhaden -- also called pogy -- were hampered by Gulf fishing closures this summer, reducing the year's catch of that lucrative meal-and-oil species.

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FDA Says Science Around New Salmon Is Inconclusive

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health, Food Politics, Salmon, Food Allergies, Aquaculture, Genetically Modified Food, Fda, Gmo, Genetic Engineering, Allergies, Healthy Living News

On Monday, after two days of hearings, U.S. FDA concluded there is not "sufficient data to determine that a genetic modification that enables salmon to grow twice as quickly is safe for the fish or for consumers."

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Fish as Food, Fish as Wildlife: Four Fish (a Book Review)

Peter Hanlon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Four Fish, Salmon, Aquaculture, Sea Bass, Cod, Fish, Tuna, Fisheries, Green News

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, chronicles the boom-and-bust cycles of four fish that "dominate the modern seafood market": salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna.

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Louisiana Oyster Industry Hit Hard By BP Oil Spill: P&J Oyster, Oyster Bars To Close

AP | By KEVIN McGILL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Louisiana, Gulf Oil Spill, Felix's Oyster House, Aquaculture, BP Oil Spill, New Orleans, Motovatit Seafood, Oil Spill, Oyster Bars, Ameripure, Sunseri, French Quarter, P&j Oyster, P&j Oyster Co., Video, Food News

NEW ORLEANS (AP)-- The pre-dawn shucking of small mountains of oysters that is an age-old workaday ritual in New Orleans is coming to an end at the 13...

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Eco Etiquette: 5 Farmed Fish That Get The Green Light

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mercury Pollution, Domsea Farms, Whale Meat Scandal, The Hump, Aquaculture, Sustainable Seafood, Seafood Watch, Fish Farming, Pcbs, Bluefin Tuna, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Our Oceans, Food Politics, Green News

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. My friend said that I sho...

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9 Surprising Fish Farming Facts (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Sustainability, Aquaculture, Fish Farming, Shrimp, Fish, Fishing, Sustainable Seafood, Overfishing, Our Oceans, Green News

Over 1 billion people across the world rely on fish as their main source of protein, mostly in developing countries. In America, fish consumption is ...

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Scientists Develop Fish With Six-Pack Abs That Could Benefit Aquaculture Industry

Mother Nature Network | Stephanie Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aquaculture, Transgenic Fish, Rainbow Trout, Trout, Aquaculture Industry, Fish Muscles, Muscular Trout, Fish, Muscular Fish, University of Rhode Island, Six-Pack Fish, Animals, Fisheries, Green News

The trout are bizarrely muscular, with rippling abdomens that resemble six-pack abs and dorsal humps that give the impression of bulked-up shoulders. ...

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Solving Seafood -- Sustainably

Julie Packard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Target, Aquaculture, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Pollan, Marine Life, Seafood Choices Alliance, Fish, Sustainable Fishing, Seafood Summit, Seafood Watch, Fishing, Oceans, Sustainable Seafood, Blue Revolution, The Green Revolution, Ocean, Seafood, Green News

I just returned from the Seafood Choices Alliance Seafood Summit in Paris, a gathering of over 600 business and NGO leaders concerned about the future of seafood.

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Turning the Tide for Seafood

Julie Packard | Posted 05.25.2011

Ocean life is today threatened as never before. Human activities are taking their toll, and nothing exacts a greater price than the industrial scope and scale of fishing to feed our growing appetite for seafood.

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Farm-Raised Salmon Are Turning Our Oceans Into Polluted Feedlots

Tara Lohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmon, Sustainable Fishing, Food, Aquaculture, Fish Farming, Fish, West Coast, British Columbia, Ireland, Salmon of Hte Americas, Norway, Climate Change, Disease, Environment, Scotland, New York Times, Green News

Farming salmon, once a dream fish, has become a nightmare for the environment.

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The Pescatore's Dilemma

Cathy Erway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: By-Catch, Farmed Seafood, Aquaculture, Red Snapper, Trawling, The End of the Line, Farmed Fish, Farmed Salmon, Finning, Endangered Species, Overfished Species, Pescatarian, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Seafood, Green News

Seafood has enjoyed a long history of acceptance among people who otherwise do not eat meat. Yet today's food gurus are placing pescatarianism at the height of ravenously irresponsible eating.

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Chile's Salmon Farms Verging on Breakdown

Dan Imhoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Salmon, Aquaculture, Chilean Salmon, Farmed Salmon, Ocean, Fish, Chile Salmon Farms, Salmon Farms, Green News

One recent story that should have generated some rather large waves has made only a minor splash. Chile's salmon farming industry, second only to Norway's, is on the verge of collapse.

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The Ultimate Ocean Ranch

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Otec, Next Generation Fisheries, Bergen Declaration, Ultimate Ocean Ranch, Mariculture, Aquaculture, Natural Science Foundation, Green, Sustainable Fishing, Blue Revolution, Fishing, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, Green News

Projections show that even with the increasing world population and a shift of nutritional patterns away from red meat towards seafood, actual fish production will decline in the future.

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