Seafood: Wild Fish and Farmed Fish

Aquaculture is one solution to overfishing, but it is also controversial. Fish farmers have grown certain favorites in America—oysters, for example—since the nineteenth century. The fish supply is increasingly global and farmed. Americans eat farmed salmon from Scandinavia, South America, and North America; prawns and shrimp from Asia and Central America; and tilapia from Central America and the continental United States. Mussels, oysters, catfish, and clams are also farmed, many in American waters.