Offshore fish farms could supply sustainable seafood from the Gulf, but environmental controversies remain as a recent executive order attempts to launch fish farming in federal waters.

In light of the FDA's recent approval of genetically engineered salmon, the latest Food & Water Watch report on open-ocean aquaculture might leave some advocates feeling a little clammy.

In Panama, Open Blue has a permit to farm 10,000 tons of fish a year. The 3.5-square-mile farm will be surrounded by a three-kilometer buffer zone and identified on nautical charts to deter ...

Diamond-shaped fish cages rise from the water for cleaning at an open-ocean fish farm in Colon, Panama. This is one of many approaches to aquaculture, or the farming of aquatic organisms that ...

In August 2008, heavy rain fell in western Panama, damaging a fish farm by a trout stream that flows out of Parque Nacional Volcan Baru. The fish inside were Atlantic salmon genetically engineered ...

The other reason he chose Panama is the real hero of the story: cobia, the fish he’s farming. The first time I heard of cobia was in Josh Schonwald’s book The Taste of Tomorrow.Schonwald spent ...

We’re farming more and more fish, ... Hawaii, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Florida. “What we’re hoping to do here is develop a turn-key cage system that people can install,” he says.

Tuna farming has been tried elsewhere since the 1970s. It took Japan’s Kinki University 32 years and $50 million to successfully artificially inseminate and farm-raise a type of bluefin tuna that is ...

Avoid these 12 fish for health and environmental reasons. ... Salmon farming is very polluting: Thousands of fish are crammed into pens, ... That salmon would be farmed off the coast of Panama, ...

Members of the Don’t Cage Our Ocean coalition, including Greenpeace, the Institute for Fisheries Resources, and the National Family Farm Coalition, see these examples as proof that all fish farming is ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the Panama City crayfish as a threatened species with 4,138 acres of critical habitat.. The Center for Biological Diversity ...