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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon.com has granted 1.5 million euros ($1.6 million) to a Dutch project testing the viability of commercially growing seaweed in between turbines of offshore wind farms, the company and organizers ...

Offshore aquaculture could soon move from concept to reality along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Research shows Americans now eat more farmed seafood than wild-caught, and the vast majority of it is imported.