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How to Start Your Own Aquaculture Farm

Agric4profits

Aquaculture is a distinct commercial activity that has provided an excellent response to the global demand for fish and seafood through a nutritious and affordable source of animal protein.

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Stopping Aquaculture Rope Pollution at the Source

Modern Farmer

After asking around, Shaw realized that these little yellow ropes came from longline oyster aquaculture, an off-bottom growing technique that is particularly useful in areas where the bottom can’t support bottom-grown oysters due to the prevalence of burrowing shrimp. Longline aquaculture uses yellow polypropylene rope.

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Harvesting Shellfish? Get the App

Modern Farmer

When you harvest oysters, you have to make sure you aren’t crossing over into restricted territory. Shellfish are both culturally and economically significant in coastal communities across the continent, but knowing which waters are legal and safe to harvest can present a significant obstacle. Screenshot of the ShellCast web app.

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Krill Fishing Boom May Threaten Antarctic Predators and Climate Crisis Mediation

Food Tank

As the krill fishing industry expands across the aquaculture and pharmaceuticals industry, scientists express concerns that these sectors will decrease krill’s carbon sink capacity and create competition for krill’s natural predators. Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report.

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On Cape Cod, the Wampanoag Assert Their Legal Right to Harvest the Waters

Civil Eats

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. In 2022, the tribe was awarded an aquaculture grant of $1.1 Not just food.”

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The World is Farming More Seafood Than it Catches. Is That a Good Thing?

Modern Farmer

A new report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested from the wild, an apparent first. The organization found that global production from both aquaculture and fisheries reached a new high — 223.3 Of that, 185.4 metric tons.

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Meet the Modern Trout Farmer Using Gravity to His Advantange

Modern Farmer

He’ll spend the day weeding and cleaning, then harvest the remaining fish in the next week or so. They’ll start their lives here, then cycle through a dozen similar impoundments—that together hold more than 20,000 fish at various stages of maturation—for about two years until they’re ready for harvest. “It