Bluefin tuna breeding breakthrough claimed Fish Update September 8, 2010 European researchers believe they may have made an important discovery which could prove a lifeline for the endangered blue...

Database developed on nutritional needs of farmed fish FIS September 8, 2010 Numerous universities and research institutions in Brazil are participating in an innovative project to disseminate the...

FDA considers approving genetically modified salmon The Washington Post By Lyndsey Layton September 6, 2010 The Food and Drug Administration is poised to approve the first genetically modified an...

Judge rules against green groups in aquaculture suit FIS August 18, 2010 A federal judge in Washington, DC, ruled against three environmental groups that were trying to sue a management plan for o...

Disease decimates salmon farms in Chile UPI Augusy 17, 2010 Struggling to recover from a devastating health crisis, the once-booming salmon farming industry in Chile faces an uncertain future, exp...

Flotilla takes aim at salmon farming Times Colonist By Judith Lavoie August 8, 2010 First Nations and salmon farm opponents will take to the water this fall to galvanize public support for ending ...

Grouper aquaculture set to boom FIS August 3, 2010 Many grouper farmers in Taiwan are rebuilding their ponds ravaged by last August's Typhoon Morakot hoping they can partake in the prospects of a ...

B.C. eyes cockle industry The Province By Carla Wilson August 1, 2010 B.C.'s next commercial aquaculture species is on the beach waiting to be discovered. First Nations have long eaten the nativ...

Iceland to expand fish farming effort FISHupdate July, 15 2010 Fish farming remains a small part of Iceland's overall fishing industry, but it is set to grow, says the Islandsbanki seafood report....

Seaweed products begins further expansion The Working Waterfront By Muriel L. Hendrix July 8, 2010 Like so many entrepreneurial ventures with food products, Ocean Approved frozen seaweed started w...

Genetically modified salmon grows twice as fast Opposing Views July 2, 2010 What do you get when you take an Atlantic salmon, splice in a gene from a Chinook salmon, plus a gene from an ocean pout...

True-bluefin The Economist June 22, 2010 During May and June, when the mighty bluefin tuna returns to the Mediterranean to spawn, fishermen arrive from all over the world to catch it. In days gone...

A fish tale: Aquaculture set to boom MSNBC News June 22, 2010 Despite two decades of hardship, war and a loss of markets, Matko Jasprica has kept his Croatian fish farm alive and now hopes to star...

NL aquaculture industry to expand FIS June 17, 2010 Newfoundland and Labrador's (NL) aquaculture industry is expected to continue growing in the coming years as a second New Brunswick (NB) firm bo...

Aquaculture ‘will be dominant seafood supplier' Fish News EU June 11, 2010 On the final day of the AquaVision conference in Stavanger, Norway, Professor Frank Asche said he expected aquaculture ...

Deep-sea fish farming the wave of the future Noozhawk By Kate Cordeniz... May 31, 2010 When someone says the word "farm," our minds instantly take us to the little red barn in the country with the...

Capture-based cod farming possible FIS By Denise Recalde April 16, 2010 When wild cod is kept alive in a cage, it can be sold fresh year-round and stable supplies could be of considerable value fo...

Salmon producers' demand troubles artisanal fishers FIS April 7, 2010 The Chilean salmon farming companies kicked off an intense campaign to lobby the government for more space in the austral regi...

B.C. brings fish farming sea lice data out into open Digital Journal By Stephanie Dearing March 3, 2010 British Columbia - Environmental groups have been trying to obtain information about sea lic...

Federal government urged to protect B.C. wild salmon The Globe and Mail By Mark Hume March 2, 2010 Ten environmental organizations have written to Fisheries Minister Gail Shea urging the federal g...

'Ranching' tuna the eco-friendly way CNN By Kyung Lah January 25, 2010 Tokihiko Okada has hundreds of children. Well, not literally, but you might as well call the giant bluefin tuna he cares for ...

New rules planned for fish farming in federal waters Ventura County Star By Michael Collins January 18, 2010 Americans' insatiable love of seafood is back on the federal government's plate. Five...

Farmed salmon ... and genetic mystery ScienceDaily December 22, 2009 It's known that escaped fish from Norwegian salmon farms can interbreed with wild salmon, and thus must have changed the genet...

Study looks at sustainable salmon production The Columbia Basin Bulletin November 25, 2009 Popular thinking about how to improve food systems for the better often misses the point, according to th...

Farmed salmon capable of eating wild fish Tmes Colonist By Judith Lavoie October 28, 2009 A wild Pacific salmon smolt found in the stomach of an Atlantic salmon on the lam shows escaped farm fish ...

Fish farm boom strains wild stock, study finds MSNBC September 9, 2009 More and more fish are being raised on farms before they end up on dinner plates around the world. Aquaculture, or the cultur...

Bodega Bay scientists weigh impact of ocean acid The Press Democrat By Bob Norberg September 6, 2009 The danger from increasing levels of acid in the ocean, which could devastate California's shel...

NOAA to pursue policy for sustainable aquaculture NOAA September 3, 2009 NOAA today announced its intent to develop a comprehensive national policy for sustainable marine aquaculture in the coming...

Predatory snail wrecks California oysters Times of The Internet August 3, 2009 A predatory snail indigenous to the Atlantic Ocean is decimating native oysters living in Tomales Bay north of San Fr...

Is ocean's acidity killing sea life? Seattle Times By Craig Welch June 21, 2009 The collapse began rather unspectacularly. In 2005, when most of the millions of Pacific oysters in this tree-line...

Close salmon farms now, advocates say Vancouver 24 Hours By Dharm Makwana June 16, 2009 Advocates called for the complete closure of five open-net salmon farms in the Northern Georgia Straight Tue...

Salmon, other ocean predators losing food supply The Oregonian By Scott Learn March 2, 2009 Fish farming operations are driving increased demand worldwide for prey fish such as anchovy, krill and ...

Working with B.C. to manage aquaculture The Canadian Press February 12, 2009 Vancouver, B.C. - Federal NDP fisheries critic Peter Julian says he is "appalled" that the federal government doesn't h...

Fishers learn to share shrinking catch IPS By Stephen Leahy February 10, 2009 SAN DIEGO, California - With the oceans in crisis, where will our fish - an important source of protein for billions o...

Wild, farmed fish can co-exist: Report The Daily News By Robert Baron February 9, 2009 If "rigorously managed," salmon farming and wild salmon can successfully coexist in the same areas, a long-a...

Balance between wild and farmed salmon is essential The Daily News By Robert Barron February 6, 2209 It's hard to know who to cheer for in the ongoing debate around fish farms in B.C. On one han...

New Study Details How Ocean Fish Farming Harms Wild Salmon The Columbia basin Bulletin December 19, 2008 Farming of fish in ocean cages is fundamentally harmful to wild fish, according to an essay...

Salmon farms destroying wild salmon populations in Canada The Canadian Press February 12, 2008 Salmon farming operations have reduced wild salmon populations by up to 70 per cent in several areas...