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It seems like the revolving door just doesn’t stop spinning. Only last week we noted how the lobbyist for big aquaculture trade organization Stronger America through Seafood left to join its key member corporation Cargill as its DC lobbyist. And now we learn that a scientist who up until recently advised NOAA’s aquaculture department is now directly working with the …
Members and friends of Don’t Cage Our Oceans are noticing a pattern. The industrial aquaculture trade association “Stronger America Through Seafood” (SATS) has been picking up a few Congressional co-sponsors on their “AQUAA Act” – legislation designed to open our public waters to widespread factory-farm style raising of fish. What these Congressional members have in common is that several hail …
March Madness is upon us, and perhaps you are checking your bracket feverishly, with an eye toward this Saturday’s Final Four either making or breaking your odds of winning. Or maybe you picked the Kentucky Wildcats to win the whole thing and your bracket broke on the first day of the tournament. Not that I um, did that or anything. …
Ah, St. Patrick’s Day – that fun time of the year to wear green, look for four-leaf clovers, maybe drink a couple of emerald-colored beers, and eat farmed fish tainted with malachite green. Wait…what was that last one? Offshore finfish farming (OFF) is the mass cultivation of finfish in marine waters, in underwater or floating net pens, pods and cages. …
Right now, the Biden administration is pushing forward efforts to industrialize our oceans by speeding the construction of harmful, offshore finfish farming facilities across the country. During his presidential campaign, President Biden promised a science-first approach to protecting the environment, so why aren’t we hearing more about how his administration is doing the opposite right now? Offshore finfish facilities cram …
