Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by ...

I built my livelihood on sustainable seafood by fishing and farming on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, supporting the bay and coastal communities from Maryland to Alaska that catch local, native fin and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Offshore fish farming would be allowed in the Gulf of Mexico under a plan approved by the agency that sets the body of water’s fishing rules. Fishermen complained that making ...

Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off coppery scales. These red drum are farmed, not wild. They circle inside a ...

President Donald Trump’s first-term push to open the Gulf of Mexico and other federal waters to fish farming has come to a halt in the early days of his second term. A federal judge in Washington ...

Bipartisan senators released legislation last week that would speed the process of putting commercial-scale fish farms in federal waters. The “Marine Aquaculture Research for America (MARA) Act of ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans has upheld a decision that throws out rules regulating fish farms in the Gulf of Mexico. The law granting authority over fisheries to the ...

The cardboard gravestones read “RIP Local fisherman,” “RIP Wild Fish,” and “RIP Humpback Whales.” Assembled in response to new aquaculture sites planned off the coast of California, the gravestones ...

A new type of submersible fish farm could make aquaculture operations much more eco-friendly. The storm-resistant structure is designed to stay out in the deep, cold waters of the open ocean, where it ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The first-ever federal regulations for large-scale fish farming in the ocean have been issued, opening a new frontier in the harvesting of popular seafood species such as red drum, ...