Pure Salmon won’t be purely salmon, but the proposed aquaculture farm in Southwest Virginia still plans to raise fish by late 2028 or early 2029, company officials told local leaders. The menu change ...

The $228 million Pure Salmon facility on 200 acres straddling Tazewell and Russell counties has hit a snag with construction delays and is pushing back its expected timeline. Tazewell County ...

Direct farm sales for shellfish aquaculture in Virginia in 2024 totalled $81 million, a 52% increase from the $53 million ...

When New Kent fishermen Chris Von Hatten and Christopher Whitmire go out on the Pamunkey River in the early hours of the morning, they hope to catch 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of blue catfish by midday.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Overfishing has put exorbitant stress on our oceans. But there is a solution: ...

Farmers have always struggled with pests destroying crops. Virginia is handling the detection and potential treatment of invasive pests, such as the box tree moth and imported fire ants. This is a ...

Tanks filled with juvenile salmon at Atlantic Sapphire Bluehouse salmon farm in Homestead on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The Bluehouse uses a technology for growing sustainable seafood on land called ...

Eric Teplitz was funded by an NIH T32 postdoctoral training grant and a Cornell Atkinson Center Graduate Student Research Grant. This study received funding from the USAID Feed the Future Fish ...

HOMESTEAD — 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 ...