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A fishing cat photographed by a camera trap in Nepal. Image courtesy of Rama Mishra.

Fishing cat home range far bigger than previously thought, Nepal study suggests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Mar 2025
Juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Chile.

Mass salmon deaths hit Scottish farms as government investigates

Francesco De Augustinis 12 Feb 2025
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with federal, state and nonprofit partners to restore endangered Atlantic salmon to the Penobscot River watershed in Maine.

Salmon farms under fire on U.S. East Coast after being shuttered on West Coast

Edward Carver 24 Jan 2025
Thai activists

Thai farmers demand action to restore ecosystems, compensate for invasive fish

Carolyn Cowan 16 Jan 2025
The National Family Farm Coalition protests genetically engineered salmon at an event in Berea, Kentucky in August 2024.

Campaigners celebrate as firm making first-ever GMO fish ceases operations

Edward Carver 31 Dec 2024
Fishers catch fish in a net in their aquaculture enclosure.

Overuse of antibiotics in Bangladesh aquaculture raises health concerns

Masum Billah 21 Nov 2024
Salmon farms in Loch Ainort.

Scottish salmon farms seek growth despite mounting fish deaths and environmental concerns

Francesco De Augustinis 20 Nov 2024
Shrimp caught in the wild.

Indonesia fisheries minister eyes aquaculture expansion under Prabowo

M Ambari 6 Nov 2024
In five years since the 2018-19 fiscal, Khulna, Bagerhat, and Satkhira districts recorded increased production of Aman rice. Image courtesy of BARCIK

Coastal farmers in Bangladesh give up shrimp farming for agriculture to combat salinity

Sadiqur Rahman 8 Oct 2024
Mangroves in Vietnam

In choice of mangroves or livelihood, Vietnam shrimp farmers choose the latter

Carolyn Cowan 25 Jul 2024
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them

Sarah Brown 11 Jul 2024
A salmon farm in Bugoynes, Finnmark, Norway.

As aquaculture hits historic highs, let’s ensure sustainability is prioritized (commentary)

Erika Feller 10 Jul 2024

For the first time ever, we’re farming more seafood than we’re catching: FAO

Elizabeth Fitt 3 Jul 2024
Stilt mangrove roots in West Bengal's Sundarbans.

Caught in the net: Unchecked shrimp farming transforms India’s Sundarbans

Niladry Sarkar 19 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024

Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2024

Indonesian court jails environmentalist for flagging illegal farms in marine park

Basten Gokkon 4 Apr 2024

Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2024

In Raja Ampat, pearl farming balances business and ecological sustainability

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2024
A salmon farm in Bugoynes, Finnmark, Norway.

Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report

Francesco De Augustinis 27 Feb 2024

New environmental rules for Chile’s protected areas rile the salmon industry

Barinia Montoya 9 Feb 2024

Indonesia invites Turkish investors to develop tuna farms in Papua

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2024
Smooth-coated otter

Camera-traps help identify conservation needs of Thailand’s coastal otters

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jan 2024
Altasea is a marine renewable energy and conservation technology hub on an old wharf in the port of Los Angeles. Image courtesy of Altasea.

Marine conservation technology hub rises from old L.A. wharf (analysis)

David Helvarg 20 Dec 2023
Fishermen on a fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea.

Can aquaculture solve the Mediterranean’s overfishing problem?

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Oct 2023

An ‘aquatic moonshot’ in Vietnam aims to fight livestock methane with seaweed

Michael Tatarski 11 Oct 2023
Fish farm in Saronic Gulf, off the Greek coast.

At sea as on land? Activists oppose industrial farming in U.S. waters

Edward Carver 26 Jun 2023

Indonesia to expand ‘smart fisheries’ program aimed at empowering communities

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2023
A Maluku fisherman shows his catch of skipjack tuna.

Indonesia looks into tuna farming to boost aquaculture, reduce overfishing

Basten Gokkon 13 Jun 2023

In Chile’s Patagonia, another salmon plant angers water defenders

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2023
A fresh tilapia from Lake Toba, where the fish are raised by small farmers and large companies, for local consumption and for export to countries like the U.S. Photo by Drriss & Marrionn/Flickr

Sustainable fish farming & agroecology buoy Kenyan communities

David Njagi 8 Feb 2023
The author poses/hides in a mangrove at low tide. Image by Morgan Erickson-Davis.

Top mangrove news of 2022

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2022

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