A mass escape of 80,000 farmed salmon off the coast of Scotland, which was kept from the public for two years, has increased concerns over the environmental impact of salmon farms. Dale Vince, founder ...

Norway said it expects cod farmers to have rapid and targeted recapture plans for when an escape occurs, with prepared ...

The popularity of farmed Atlantic salmon on dinner tables worldwide has been a disaster for the king of fish. A new study determined that 865 million farmed salmon have died in mass die-offs in the ...

I oppose the proposed salmon farm on the Susquehanna River (“After scrapping its salmon farm on the Eastern Shore, company sets sights on Cecil County,” Sept. 5, 2024). The endangered Atlantic salmon ...

HARDANGERSFJORD, NORWAY - Jørgen Wengaard steers around the rocky islands of a fjord, his boat cutting through the water’s still surface, sending ripples toward silent forested shores. But here in the ...

The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore is a devastating yet slyly humorous account of the harms caused by 50 years of salmon farming. Much of the book ...

Environmental conditions on the seabed around fish farms generally improve the farther north you go in Norway.

Scientists say a bioluminescent algae causes the red tides at the centre of recent environmentalist concerns — but that's not ...

In 1993, AquaBounty, the company I founded, began discussions with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve an Atlantic salmon hybrid we developed that could grow to maturity much faster, in ...

Overfishing has put exorbitant stress on our oceans. But there is a solution: Aquaculture—otherwise known as fish farming—is the practice of growing and harvesting fish in a controlled, regulated and ...

We've all been there. You're in the supermarket freezer aisle trying to make sense of the different labels on seafood products. You know the oceans are in trouble and you're trying to do the right ...