As he tossed freeze-dried crickets into a pool of eager blue gill, Andrew Mueth explained this was how he and his five brothers could farm together and preserve the 160-year-old Illinois family farm ...

Fish pee just like humans do to excrete metabolic wastes. Some species produce a concentrated, somewhat yellow-hued urine that is quickly dispersed in their aquatic world. Besides water, fish pee is ...

While the mechanics of aquaponics are impressive, it’s what fish poop is doing in Omaha that gets my juices flowing. First, there’s the obvious harvest: lettuce, basil, tomatoes and spicy microgreens ...

"Estimating the carbon content of fish feces helps us learn about how important fish might be for transporting and storing carbon in coastal ecosystems," she says. Martin also measured how fast the ...

WASHINGTON - The ocean’s delicate acid balance may be getting help from an unexpected source, fish poop. The increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere not only drives global warming, but also ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 89, Issue 9 ...