Aquaculture is the controlled cultivation of aquatic organisms, including finfish, shellfish, crustaceans, and aquatic plants, in marine, brackish, or freshwater environments for food production, stock enhancement, or research. It encompasses a range of production systems (e.g., ponds, recirculating aquaculture systems, net pens, raceways, and integrated multi-trophic systems) and relies on precise management of water quality, nutrition, genetics, health, and environmental interactions. Research in aquaculture focuses on optimizing growth performance, feed conversion efficiency, disease resistance, reproduction, welfare, and sustainability, as well as minimizing ecological impacts such as nutrient loading, escapees, and pathogen transmission to wild populations.
Sea cucumbers (Apostichopus japonicus) have been slowly disappearing from ocean floors over the last few decades, mostly due to overfishing for food and medicinal purposes. Despite their name, sea cucumbers are aquatic animals ...
Much of the scallop farming techniques used in the U.S. derive from practices in Japan, where scallops have long been a part of the country's seafood industry. Researchers from the University of Maine are working to test ...
Ecology
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A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows promising advances in sustainable farming and animal nutrition. A team of researchers led by Professor Bertha (Betty) Schwartz from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Waist-deep in a rain-swollen river, Christer Kristoffersen cast his line, landed it gently on the water, and caught ... nothing. Norway's iconic wild salmon is in dramatic decline, a victim of fish farming and climate change.
Ecology
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Common carp which are reared in fish-farms, stocked into recreational fisheries and then captured regularly by catch-and-release angling show much lower chronic stress levels than their wild counterparts that never see an ...
Plants & Animals
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A sweeping new executive order to deregulate the U.S. seafood sector risks unraveling decades of scientific progress and environmental protections, according to aquaculture and fishery scientists writing in a new paper published ...
Plants & Animals
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Bodies piled up against the edge of the pen, skin flaking off, pink flesh to the sky. From above, a glut of dead fish ripples in time with the waves.
Ecology
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Farmed Atlantic salmon has become one of the most highly traded food commodities in the world, enjoyed for its versatility as much as for its health benefits. It has long been known that eating oily fish such as salmon is ...
Ecology
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