One is richer and more flavorful, and one is leaner and milder.

When you’re shopping at the grocery store, you’ve probably noticed that fish products are usually stamped with a “wild-caught” or “farm-raised” label. But which kind of fish is actually the healthier ...

Worried about the future of wild-caught salmon? Land-based farmed salmon could be part of the solution. Americans love salmon. It’s readily available fresh, frozen and canned. Whole sides of salmon ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings A genetically engineered salmon, rear, beside an Atlantic salmon of the same ...

The public is being encouraged to eat more wild fish, such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used within farmed salmon feeds. These oily fish contain essential nutrients including ...

The amount of farmed seafood we consume—as opposed to that taken wild from our waters—is soaring every year, making aquaculture an ever-more important source for many diets, and a response to ...

Currently, vaccination mostly involves injecting the fish individually, which is laborious and may not be suitable for small ...

This summer, the nonprofit animal welfare certification program Global Animal Partnership (GAP) debuted standards for farmed Atlantic salmon. As with other GAP animal welfare standards, the salmon ...

Fish farming involves the rapidly expanding global practice of raising aquatic species to meet growing food demand. The majority of these have no protection under national animal welfare laws, and ...

Right now, there’s a current in the St. John’s River, Richard Sanders tells me. It makes for good fishing. “[If] you get an east-northeast wind and the river flows backward, you don’t catch nothing.