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The Hard Work of Bringing Kelp to Market

Civil Eats

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Maine is the heart of America’s farmed seaweed industry, supplying half its harvest— well over a million pounds —last season. billion market. Then they sell the harvest to ASF, which picks up the kelp on the dock.

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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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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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Spotlight On a Cannery Trying to Revive A Dormant Fishing Tradition

Modern Farmer

It was probably for good reason,” says Chris Sherman, CEO of Island Creek Oysters , an aquaculture business based in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Sherman is no stranger himself to the environmental and economic challenges of running an aquaculture business. But would the market find them satisfying? “I

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Building a Market for Invasive Species

Modern Farmer

The small, invasive shore crabs are easy to find—they like to hang out in tidal marshes, alongside rocky shores, and on sand flats, but finding fishermen and seafood harvesters willing to catch the crabs for human consumption is a challenge. David Standridge is on a mission to bring green crabs to more plates. And it’s not just crabs.

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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

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The Case for Seafood Self-Reliance

Civil Eats

Climate change and global crises disrupting the international market only add to the complications. seafood is attainable, Stoll says, if we invest in connecting harvesters and consumers at the regional level. We’re hearing about the price of salmon and the markets being flooded. has to be imported.”

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