Fish Farming

PHOTOS: 7 Foods You'll Be Eating In The Future

Josh Schonwald | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Food News, Book News, Fish Farming, Fish Farm, Future Food, Future of Food, Food of the Future, Food Book, Genetic Food, Genetic Engineering Food, Slidepollajax, Genetic Engineering, Books News

It took me some time to warm to the idea of unveiling my own forecast. But after a couple of years on the food frontier, I can confidently say you'll see more of these seven foods in 2042.

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6 Of The Healthiest Fish To Eat ... And 6 Fish To Avoid

EatingWell | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Brierley Wright, Eating Green, Eating Well, Good Choices, Eatingwell, Health, Nutrition, Wellness, Slidepollajax, Good Fish, Fish Farming, Fish Health, Diet and Nutrition, Unhealthy Fish, Bad Fish, Healthy Fish, Fish Mercury, Healthy Living News

Here are six fish that are healthy for you and the planet -- that Seafood Watch says you should be eating -- plus six to avoid.

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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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Farm Fish in Your Backyard: DIY Aquaponic System Uses Fish Poo to Fertilize Vegetables (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Organic Vegetables, Indoor Aquaponics System, Organic Farming, Backyard Farming, Hobby Farmer, Greenhouse Kit, Aquaponics, Vegetable Farming, Aquaponics Kit, Backyard Greenhouse, Fish Farming, Backyard Aquaponics, Hobby Greenhouse, Green News, Tilapia, DIY Aquaponics, Hobby Aquaponics, DIY Greenhouse, Green News

Since the plants don't need dirt, aquaponics allows gardeners to produce more food in less space. And in addition to the vegetables they can grow, most aquaponics gardeners cultivate edible fish as well.

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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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Are Regulations for Sustainable Fish Farming Just a Red Herring?

Regina Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factory Farms, Oceans, Noaa, Fish Farming, Fish, Fish Farms, Sustainable Fishing, Fishing, Sustainable Fish Farming, Green News

Ocean fish farms, enormous submerged cages filled with highly concentrated groups of live fish, are essentially the factory farms of the sea.

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Study: Sea Lice From Salmon Farms Infecting BC Sockeye

Chris Genovali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Columbia, Fraser River, Fish Farming, Wild Salmon, Sockeye-Salmon-Canada, Sea Lice, Salmon Farms, Salmon Lice, Green News

A new study provides the first link between salmon farms and elevated levels of sea lice on juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon in British Columbia.

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Grass-Fed Fish?

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Responsible Fish Farming, Fishing Policy, Farming Fish, Farming Fish Responsibly, Fish Farming, Home News

Is there a way of producing fish that comes as a byproduct of restoring ecosystems, of regenerative practices that require not 10 to 20 pounds of small wild fish (ground into fish pellets) to produce one pound of the fleshy fish we humans so love to consume?

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Larger Predator Fish Rapidly Vanishing

Washington Post | Marc Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fishing Industry, Fish Farming, American Association for the Advancement of Science, UN Environment Programme, International Food Policy Research Institute, Sustainable Fishing, Overfishing, Villy Christensen, Food News

Over the past 100 years, some two-thirds of the large predator fish in the ocean have been caught and consumed by humans, and in the decades ahead the...

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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 Anti-Salmon: A Fish We Can Finally Farm Without Guilt

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barramundi Farming, Anti-Salmon, Joshua Goldman, Fish Farming, Barramundi, Salmon Farming, Australis Aquaculture, Green News

What logical reason would anyone have for domesticating Atlantic salmon, a carnivorous fish that cruises the open oceans and needs to eat many times i...

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Valentin Abe: Helping Haitians Feed Themselves With Fish Farming Projects

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Fish Farming, Valentin Abe, Haiti-Economy, Haiti, Haiti Poverty, Fishing, Haiti Economic Recovery, Haiti Fishing, Video, Impact News

When Valentin Abe arrived in Haiti, he was startled that fishing that wasn't a large part of the island nation's economy. Abe had a simple vision: fis...

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Meals of Mass Destruction: Shrimp

Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wild Caught, Fish Farming, Marine Stewardship Council, Trawling, Eco-Certification, Shrimp, Bycatch, Green News

The shrimping industry itself is an environmental scourge much older than the oil spill. Farming is responsible for habitat destruction, while trawling for wild shrimp is harmful to the oceanic environment. So which is the lesser of the two evils?

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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

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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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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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What Is Aquaponics? (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Organic Farming, Fish Waste, Fish Farming, Local Food, Aquaponics, Video, Green News

Wednesday, Organic Nation TV released a new video detailing an aquaponics operation in Flanagan, Illinois. Dorothee Royal-Hedinger writes, Myles Har...

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Seafood Crisis: A vital conversation with Jean-Michel Cousteau.

Trey Borzillieri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orcas, Toxic Flame Retardants, Eating Fish, Fishing, Blue Fin Tuna, Farm-Raised-Seafood, Call of the Killer Whale, Ocean Futures Society, Fish Farming, Sustainable Seafood, Canned Seafood, Shopping for Seafood, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Sushi, Seafood, Monterey Aquarium Seafood Watch, Green News

"We stopped hunting on land and became farmers," said Cousteau. "We have to do the same thing as far as the ocean is concerned."

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Eating Fish, Eating What?

Trey Borzillieri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wild Salmon, Fish Market, Pcbs, Mercury Poisoning, Whales, Toxins, Fish Farming, Sea, Fish, Sushi, Fishing, Tuna, Fisheries, Green News

The average consumer is so uninformed about fish that looking through the glass case and pointing is like hitting a button on a vending machine with signage in a foreign language.

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Strange Connections: Midwest Farms and Floods Killing Gulf Fish?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Environment, Fishing, Gulf of Mexico, Red Tide, Fish, Dead Zone, Fish Farming, Green News

Ever hear of a "dead zone"? I don't mean the book by Stephen King. I'm referring a typically large swath of ocean that is so depleted of oxygen that most aquatic life caught in one either suffocate or escape the region.

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Fish Farming Innovations

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nutrition Gap, Protein-Gap, Food, Food Chain, Fresh Water Shortage, Food Safety, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Japan, Price Rise, Fish Farming, Food Traceability, Protein, Food Shortages, Tuna, Bluefin Tuna, Food Security, Kindai, Wakayama, Green News

A private university in Japan, through government grants and in collaboration with an affiliated commercial entity, completely cultured near-extinct bluefin tuna -- a first for the world.

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