Huge project by Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms gets go-ahead amid concerns over the environmental cost of fish farming and threat to traditional way of life ...

For Nikos Tsipas, the mud is most disconcerting. When he sets out in his fishing boat, the waters of the Aegean Sea are clear enough for him to see quite a ways down. He says that for large patches of ...

Thousands of farm-raised salmon have escaped into Iceland’s natural waterways, igniting alarm among scientists, conservationists, and fishing communities. The incident, which occurred on August 20, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The escape of thousands of salmon from an open-pen fish farm has endangered the wild salmon population in ...

Studies and NGOs have documented lost or abandoned gear from open-net aquaculture operations in coastal areas across cold and temperate latitudes, where fish farming in the sea expanded rapidly in the ...

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 ...