A Chilean environmental court has ordered a full work stoppage on Salmones Antártica’s USD 17 million (EUR 14.6 million) fish ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Comau Fjord is a sliver of sea framed by thickly forested mountain slopes. Melting glaciers peek between the crags. Waterfalls tumble down ...

Studies and NGOs have documented lost or abandoned gear from open-net aquaculture operations in coastal areas across cold and temperate latitudes, where fish farming in the sea expanded rapidly in the ...

A law that came into force in Chile last year has upset the salmon industry for imposing new requirements for salmon farms located in protected areas. The industry says the new rules threaten jobs and ...

As stocks of wild fish in the sea were reduced from overfishing, aquaculture or fish farming expanded significantly to the point that in about 2020, the total tonnage of farm raised fish surpassed ...

As global demand for seafood continues to surge and capture fisheries plateau, fish farming — or aquaculture — presents a promising path to achieving food security, economic growth, and a sustainable ...

HOMESTEAD — Salmon farms normally occur in the fjords of Norway or Chile, not on the hot, humid flats next to the Everglades. But Atlantic Sapphire, a new type of on-land salmon farm, is betting on ...

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SeaTwirl AB has entered into an agreement to carry out a feasibility study for electrification of fish farms together with a global industrial supplier. The intention of the collaboration is to assess ...

There’s this salmon-farming company located on the far southern tip of Chile that goes by the name Nova Austral. The company is quick to point out that its salmon are antibiotic free. This is a big ...

Sea lice attached to the skin of a wild salmon. Salmon farms have been plagued by parasitic sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) since they were first established in Norway in the 1960s. The small ...

For its part, Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA) told Mongabay in an emailed statement that it regularly conducts sanitary, environmental and production inspections of ...