A $2 million grant from the Department of Energy will support a partnership between UC Santa Cruz’s ecological aquaculture research team and the company Global Algae Innovations to test whether ...

Pallab Sarker and other participants in the research described in this article have received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture; the Sherman Fairchild Professorship, Dean of the Faculty ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2022, fish farms produced an unprecedented 131 million tons of seafood, officially ...

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz’s ecological aquaculture lab won a three-year, $1 million grant from the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative at the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Most of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about what the farmed seafood we eat might itself be eating. The answer is usually an opaque diet that includes some kind of fishmeal and fish oil.

We’re harvesting too many fish from the ocean, not just for human plates, but to feed farmed fish as well. NovoNutrients wants to replace that fish food with something more sustainable: microbes grown ...

This past weekend, I tasted shrimp grown with feed made from genetically-engineered bacteria. The bacteria, which are way more interesting than the shrimp, are the brainchildren of Larry Feinberg, CEO ...

Fish farming seems like a great idea on paper. But a host of environmental problems can plague coastal fisheries, most due to the large amounts of waste generated by these floating factory farms.