Wild fish are a precious resource—here's how aquaculture can bolster food security

Small fish such as sardinella are an affordable source of protein and essential nutrients for millions of people across West Africa.
Mother Jones

Aquaculture Is Using Far More Wild Fish as Feed Than Previously Estimated

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2022, fish farms produced an unprecedented 131 million tons of seafood, officially ...
Undercurrentnews.com

Denmark’s Aller Aqua, TripleNine enter feed research collaboration

Aller Aqua, a Denmark-based producer of fish feed, and TripleNine, a Danish producer of fish meal and oil, announced Wednesday that they have entered into a research collaboration to identify ...
The Guardian

Grinding up fish to feed to fish is ‘absurd’: fears over UN aquaculture plan

Huge rollout of fish farms could harm ecosystems and threaten vulnerable communities’ food sources, say experts Nearly half of the world’s wild fish catch will be ground into animal feed for farmed ...
The Conversation

Taking fish out of fish feed can make aquaculture a more sustainable food source

Aquaculture, or fish farming, is the world’s fastest-growing food production sector. But the key ingredients in commercial fish feed – fishmeal and fish oil – come from an unsustainable source: small ...
fisheries.noaa.gov

Removing Fish From Fish Diet for Tastier, More Sustainable Aquaculture

NOAA-funded research shows that a diet of poultry meal and algae oil could be just as good for aquaculture fish as fishmeal and fish oil. In a groundbreaking study, researchers have successfully ...
fisheries.noaa.gov

Feeds for Aquaculture

While all animals need to eat and all farmed animals need to be fed, aquaculture represents a very efficient method by which to convert feed to edible protein. Research at NOAA labs and through the ...