Since the earliest known rice paddies show up around 5000 BCE, there may be reason to think that’s when intensive fish farming started, too—but it’s going to take more research and evidence ...

Intensive fish farming in Vietnam, 2012. More than three-quarters of the global fisheries and aquaculture workforce is based in Asia. Image by Yvan Bettarel @IRD via ...

Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. It involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. A facility that ...

“Fish farming is a hefty source of income. In our country, there are all the necessary conditions for the modernization of this sector,” says B.Teshaboyev, manager of the Prot Fish Trade LLC. In ...

Second, accumulated waste from intensive finfish farming (excess feed, fish poop and chemicals) flow from the net pens into surrounding waters.

Fish farming expands Farmed fish production has risen by 8.6% per year in the last three decades and now provides around half the amount of fish that people eat.

Fish farming is big business – the global aquaculture sector is worth $232 billion – and well placed to profit from global megatrends such as climate change, the growing population and the ...

A new report alleges poor animal welfare conditions on fish farms in Indonesia, one of the world’s leading producers of fish products. Produced by Act for Farmed Animals (AFFA), a coalition of ...

The ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has launched a three-day hands-on training on fish feed production using ...

Salmon are raised in tanks at a Fish Farm facility in Dubai on October 15, 2019. – From a control room in the middle of Dubai’s desert, Norway’s sunrises and sunsets and the cool currents of ...