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  • This is the website of a shrimp farm in the interior of Spain. Some years working now. They do not taste like wild but they are ok. https://norayseafood.es/en/
    by n3storm
  • There are some exciting (or terrifying depending on your perspective) developments in the “lab grown/cultivated” space. I had a chance to have some WildType salmon the other day. The costs are still way above wild caught or farmed salmon, but if they can get the price down and improve the texture I could see these cultivated meats really taking off.

    https://github.com/Michael-Nolan/Public/blob/main/Notes/2025...

    by MichaelNolan
  • Environmental groups such as Sea Piracy are against farming any kind of sea food and taking away krill or seaweed from oceans. Oceans are already devastated by overfishing
    by iberator
  • There is a certification group called Best Aquaculture Practices[0] that sets standards for hatcheries, farms, feed mills, and processing plants regarding sustainability and quality. They've got a new feed mill standard[1] but it seems like it gives feed mills a few years to come into compliance to use sustainable fishmeal and fish oil.

    [0]https://bapcertification.org/Home [1]https://bapcertification.org/Downloadables/pdf/standards/BAP...

    by goda90
  • Ah, fish - the one farmed animal we have not figured out how to feed with soybean yet. Soon, I guess.

    I'm not quite sure "fish-free fed fish” is going to have the same cache as “grass-fed beef," despite the article's suggestion.

    by CGMthrowaway
  • > Veramaris, a joint venture in the Netherlands and the United States, cultivated algae that produced the same omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil, and in quantities sufficient to replace billions of forage fish.

    If something like this works, it has the double benefit of pulling carbon from the air/water and turning all of the matter into food. With typical plants we grow on land, (generally) most of the plant isn't consumed so whatever carbon it stored is a waste product. In some countries, that waste is just burned and sent back into the atmosphere. But basically 100% of algae's mass is consumable.

    by forgotoldacc
  • The need for wild-caught protein to feed fish is so strong that there is krill piracy around antarctica!

    https://apnews.com/article/whales-antarctica-krill-global-wa...

    by datadrivenangel
  • The problem is farming seafood in its contemporary best-practice manner which is focused on output rather than maintaining a sustainable ecology.

    All other issues - be it wild-caught marine-animal ingredients being eroded as a finite input, or simply killing off all-around it due to the increased prevalence of sea lice and industrial activity - are a product of the practices, not the concept.

    The problem is exacerbated in a grotesque feedback loop as well as the sea lice can transfer from farms and reduce the health and survival of wild salmon and trout in particular - leading to chemical treatments and other practices which result in everything from algae bloom to facilitating invasive species to straight-forward pollution.

    by piltdownman

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