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IS THERE A GOOD PLACE FOR AN INDUSTRIAL FISH FARM?
Guest Blogger: Christian Wagley, Healthy Gulf The ongoing saga of Manna Farms and their attempt to place an industrial-scale fish farm off Pensacola Beach, FL points-out an inescapable fact about fish farms: With all of the problems they can cause, their promoters are finding it hard to find a good place to put them. The latest such dilemma for Manna …
Corporations contaminated our nation’s freshwater fish. We can’t let our oceans be wrecked too.
Last week, a study revealed that eating just one freshwater fish caught in a river or lake in the U.S. is the equivalent of drinking a month’s worth of water contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals” (also known as PFAS). This is a terrible revelation to all who fish for sustenance or recreation in our nation’s rivers and lakes. In fact, …
NOAA’s 2022 grants demonstrate its ongoing loyalty to the factory fish farming industry
NOAA is seeking public comment on how it spends money to support aquaculture programs, and you can let them know how you feel about it! While the agency funds a variety of aquaculture projects through its NOAA Sea Grant program, Saltonstall-Kennedy (S-K) program, and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, these programs run the spectrum between somewhat beneficial to downright …
Washington State Got It Right – Will Others Follow?
On November 14th, Washington State’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced they will not renew leases for Cooke Aquaculture’s fish farms in Puget Sound. Due to years of vigilance by community groups, Washington State realized that the legal peril, scientific concerns, and community impacts of these farms could no longer be negated or ignored. The DNR did the right thing, …
West Coast Roundtable
When: Thursday, Nov 15, 5pm PT Speakers: Peter Knutson, Fisherman, Advisor to Puget Sound Harvesters Association TBA Andrianna Natsoulas, Campaign Director, Don’t Cage Our Oceans Where: Zoom – Register HereIndustrial offshore fish farming is the mass cultivation of finfish in marine waters in net pens, pods, cages, and other confinements. These operations contaminate local ecosystems with drugs, chemicals, and untreated …
East Coast Roundtable
When: Thursday, Nov 15, 5pm ET Speakers: Colles Stowell, Founder, One Fish Foundation Jason Jarvis, Fisherman, South County Fish Monger James Mitchell, Policy Director, Don’t Cage Our Oceans Where: Zoom – Register HereIndustrial offshore fish farming is the mass cultivation of fish in marine waters in net pens, pods, cages, and other confinements. These operations contaminate local ecosystems with drugs, …
NOAA Scientist now Working Directly for Offshore Aquaculture Company
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 …
Connect the dots – industrial scale aquaculture brought to you by Big-Ag
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 …
The Coming Threat: Offshore Fish Farms in the Gulf of Mexico. . . How Did We Get Here?
On July 25th Don’t Cage Our Oceans and Healthy Gulf held a webinar about activities that may open the Gulf of Mexico to offshore fish farming. The Federal government is proposing to further industrialize the Gulf of Mexico through the construction of multiple offshore fish farms, threatening the health of Gulf waters and wild fish populations. Learn about these farms, …