Fish feeding typically accounts for 50 to 80 percent of a fish farm’s overhead costs, but since feeding is a manual task, its mostly an unmeasured and inexact method with one of two outcomes.

Researchers used the new feed to cultivate 480 Nile tilapia for six months. Compared to tilapia from the control group, tilapia on the fish-free diet exhibited 58 percent greater weight gain ...

Among the groups closely eyeing the proceedings are environmentalists, who say fish farms shouldn't quality for an organic label if they rely heavily on feed that can't be verified as organic.

Re-evaluating what we feed farmed fish will also help a lot, Waite adds. Over the past 20 years, farms have greatly reduced the amount of fish meal they use in their feed, the report finds.

Over the past 50 years, global aquaculture, including fish, mussel and seaweed farms, has grown dramatically. Almost half of the world's wild-caught fish is used to produce fishmeal and oils that feed ...

Fish farms can also reduce the effects of biological concentration nearshore by raising ... and ASC-certified farms are required to use responsibly and transparently sourced ingredients in fish feed.

The fish-farming industry is increasing its use of plant-based ingredients in its feed and moving away from traditional feed made from fish, a shift that could affect some of the health benefits of ...

C arter Newell owns and operates one of the most productive mussel farms in the state of Maine. One frigid spring morning I joined him and his two-person crew on a short boat ride to the barge he ...

This unique fish farm could feed America's appetite for protein. Why does only one exist? Americans import 90 percent of their seafood, 50 percent of which comes from aquaculture, but permitting ...

The farm uses groundwater, not Colorado River water. It's a nonrenewable resource, and like mining, different people and ...

Feeding dead fish – Another government farm project implodes. Story by Don Pinnock • 2mo. ... According to a local website on fish farming, success comes down to good water management.