Will aquaculture sink or swim in Iowa?  

That was the question that a record crowd of more than 250 people hoped to get answered at the Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers (CSIF) Aquaculture Con­ference in Ames last week.

They heard from a range of industry experts, who said the opportunities for growing Iowa’s aquaculture industry are perhaps matched only by the challenges preventing seafood from joining beef, pork and poultry as a leading protein sources produced by the state’s...