The Antarctic krill fishing industry has been growing in the past two decades. The global growth of fish farming is driving the demand for Antarctic krill as an alternative to wild fish in fish ...

The global fish-farming industry is increasingly relying on krill-based fish feed, and enzymes and chemicals derived from krill are included in a number of dietary and medical products.

The Chinese, who have been farming fish for 2,000 years, pioneered a method in which nothing is wasted. Farmers dig ponds around rice paddies and feed carp in the ponds with weeds from the rice field.

Fish farming, for which krill is used as feed, is the world's fastest growing food sector, with analysts expecting global demand for fish to double by 2050.

Petco advertises Antarctic krill as a more nutritional food option for fish that gives them a more vibrant hue. But the main use of Antarctic krill is in large-scale traditional fish farms.

But this month, the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch–whose guidelines are gospel to the sustainable seafood crowd–announced its support for a new salmon-farming technique, the first it ...

Frozen fish is the second largest export, bringing in over Rs 5,500 crore. The US, Europe, and China are the primary importers of Indian seafood. Budget push to fish farming ...