The best news is that these farms do more than grow food: In every sense, they restore rather than deplete. Matched up against land-based farming, these new ocean farms win every time.

Montauk Pearls are new to the oyster scene, and the success of their operation has given the East End a new found interest in aquaculture.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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.

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.

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...