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Today, amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the White House issued a controversial Executive Order to streamline offshore aquaculture permitting and gut other protective regulatory processes. The move threatens our ocean ecosystem, local fishing communities and coastal economies. The Executive Order on Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth mandates federal agencies to craft a program for rapid authorization of industrial offshore aquaculture …
In honor of Earth Day, our latest episode has us speaking with fellow member of the Don’t Cage Our Oceans Coalition, Hallie Templeton on behalf of Friends of the Earth, on protecting our food and waterways from the impact of industrial aquaculture & how you can get involved.
AQUAA Act paves the way for industrialization of marine waters, threatens local fishing businesses and ecosystems WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Collin Peterson (D-MN) has introduced a bill that would authorize the federal government to issue permits for industrial ocean finfish farms. These facilities would use giant floating cages to cultivate fish in ocean waters all around the U.S. coast. Chemicals, …
For many years, powerful corporations, assisted by the very U.S. agencies tasked with protecting and managing our ocean resources, have collectively been pushing for development of industrialized fish farms off the coasts of our shoreline communities.
Proposed offshore finfish farm would threaten ocean environment, local economy SARASOTA, Fla. – During a public hearing held by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, Sarasota community members and the Don’t Cage Our Ocean Coalition spoke out against plans to allow what would be the only offshore finfish farm cage operation in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
