Washington is no stranger to farmed Atlantic salmon escapes, with spills in 1996, 1997 and 1999, including one of 369,000 fish. So far, no instance of crossbreeding between Pacific and Atlantic ...

Farmed Atlantic salmon are more docile than wild fish. Atlantic salmon also have been bred to more "efficiently turn feed into flesh," says Michael Rust, the science adviser for NOAA's office of ...

As the fish grow, they are transferred to bigger tanks at Atlantic Sapphire Bluehouse Salmon farm in Homestead on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel) ...

Bodies piled up against the edge of the pen, skin flaking off, pink flesh to the sky. From above, a glut of dead fish ripples in time with the waves.

Salmon farms normally occur in the fjords of Norway or Chile, not on the hot, humid flats next to the Everglades. But Atlantic Sapphire, a new type of on-land salmon farm, is betting on South ...

The $20-billion-a-year farmed salmon industry is the world’s fastest growing food producer, and it has made farmed Atlantic salmon the most popular fish on dinner tables North America.

This is the eighth in a series of consumer guides that describe fish and shellfish farmed in the Midwest region of the United States. The fact sheet also includes culinary characteristics, cooking ...

Aquaculture of Atlantic salmon in ocean pens already takes place in New England, as fish farming giant Cooke Aquaculture cultures the fish off Maine. However, those operations are located in ...

Business 1st ocean fish farm proposed for East Coast off New England The farm would grow millions of pounds of Atlantic salmon and steelhead trout, two popular seafood species, documents state.

Some of the most popular farmed fish — including Atlantic salmon and steelhead trout — are carnivores. In the wild, they eat stuff like krill, insects, other fish and even mice (!) on occasion.

Not all salmon is created equal. Today, much of the salmon you buy isn’t caught in the wild but bred on fish farms. Salmon is often prized for its health benefits. This fish is loaded with omega ...

S almon farms normally occur in the fjords of Norway or Chile, not on the hot, humid flats next to the Everglades. But ...