Over the past 50 years, global aquaculture, including fish, mussel and seaweed farms, has grown dramatically. Almost half of the world's wild-caught fish is used to produce fishmeal and oils that feed ...

Campaigners are calling on the minister for agriculture and the marine to revoke a licence for a 23 hectare industrial-scale ...

More than 3,000 people have signed a petition objecting to the granting of planning permission for a mussel farm in Kinsale, ...

Kinsale's councillors have all come out to oppose a decision to grant a licence for a mussel farm in the waters off a popular ...

Mussel farming provides a more sustainable alternative protein source for human diets, because mussels filter feed on plankton and do not have to be fed wild-caught fish.

Mussel farming provides a more sustainable alternative protein source for human diets, because mussels filter feed on plankton and do not have to be fed wild-caught fish.

In Lyme Bay on the south coast of England, the UK’s first offshore mussel farm has been in operation since 2013. This farm has a licensed area of 6 square miles (15.4km²) and is located 2-6 miles away ...