This article originally appeared on Undark. Until the 1980s, Kolleru Lake was a sprawling shallow body of water. At its deepest point during the monsoon season, the water only reached 10 feet, yet the ...

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 ...

A sharp north wind blew as Gary Sawyer and Wilson Key stood waist deep in the pond, using a net to corral hybrid striped bass into a smaller and smaller area. Hundreds of fish slapped their tails at ...

Conventional farming is found in nearly every culture worldwide. However, many people don't yet utilize the concept of aquaculture, or the cultivation of freshwater and saltwater fish and seafood.

For the last four years, Peterson Munyu, 73, has been putting his efforts towards fish farming with a vigour that has surprised his family and neighbours. Munyu a resident of Iriaini ward in Othaya, ...

Ann Mwangi descaling a fresh Nile Perch. [Lydiah Nyawira, Standard] Over 700 fish farmers, county government officials from 16 counties, and the fisheries department held a meeting to discuss the ...

Fish farming overall may be supplementing the wild stocks, but for certain species, the farms cause a net loss of wild fish, warns a broad new review. Some aquaculturists use up to 5 kilograms of wild ...

Africa’s small-scale aquaculture practitioners need cold storage facilities to stop their fish from going to waste.

Efforts to reduce malnutrition have resulted in 200 million fewer hungry people worldwide since 1990. But 805 million people still deal with chronic hunger every day. In the fight against poverty and ...

Efforts to eradicate hunger and improve nutrition, though well intentioned, too often focus on emergency relief rather than on the creation of stable, scalable, long-term solutions that do more than ...

There are two forms of aquaculture, one that is sustainable, herbivore-oriented, small industry, small enterprise, and the other that is industrial oriented, carnivorous, and is usually large ...