Sustainability experts question whether growing fish in Arizona's desert, using energy-intensive systems and scarce water, can truly scale without environmental costs.

The program will expand to include free-range chicken farming featuring the “Manok Pinoy” breed developed by Piñol in 2010, as well as training in cattle, hog, and poultry raising.

Mainstream Aquaculture has a fish farm in the desert in Yuma County, raising concerns about using groundwater, a nonrenewable resource.

In landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, a new inland desert fish farm is growing barramundi — a tropical species native to Australia.

In the desert of landlocked Arizona, Mainstream Aquaculture has a fish farm where it's growing the tropical species barramundi, also known as Asian sea bass, for American restaurants.

Factories or farms Overfishing has led to declines in many fish species. As the demand for seafood rose, so did the desire to implement farming and aquaculture.

A failed fish farm remains one of the first things many visitors to one of Leon County’s parks see while attending a baseball tournament, using the St. Marks Trail or shooting hoops.

For the last seven years, Hawaii-based Ocean Era has been working to bring a fish farm demonstration to Florida’s Gulf Coast. Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency approved a permit… ...

Federal regulators have tentatively approved what would be the first large-scale fish farm in the Gulf, offshore from Sarasota County. Opposition is coming from people who say the project could be ...

May 28, 2025 – Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a permit that will allow the first industrial-scale fish farm to begin operating in federal waters.

A planned fish farm off Florida’s Gulf Coast has received an environmental permit allowing operators to discharge nutrient-laden water from what could be the first commercial-scale saltwater ...

EPA approves permit for aquaculture demonstration project in Gulf off Sarasota County Environmentalists have 30 days from May 15 to appeal the EPA ruling; issue may again wind up in federal court ...