Editor’s note: With 3 billion people relying on seafood as their chief source of protein, farmed seafood — known as “aquaculture” — will be crucial to feeding a growing population without further depleting our oceans. Although it supplies nearly half of all seafood consumed globally, aquaculture gets a bad rap. In this piece, we puncture some of the myths about farmed seafood.

Myth #1: Only a few fish species come from aquaculture

For many, aquaculture is synonymous with shrimp, catfish or salmon. While 70 percent of salmon on the market is farmed , salmon makes up less than 5 percent of all aquaculture production.…