Fish Farm Disasters

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Web Tracker Around the world, fish farms continue to face serious problems, ranging from escapements to disease to worker safety concerns. We are tracking these incidences around the world, and updating regularly. Check it out here.

Aquaculture with Values

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Fact Sheet The North American Marine Alliance coordinated a vision for community-based, values-driven aquaculture. This vision was a result of surveys, focus groups, and research with members of the Local Catch Network, Don’t Cage Our Oceans, and other allies. Eight main aquaculture values were identified: Food, Stewardship, Community-Based, Access, Equitable Supply Chains, Place-Based Knowledge, Public Resource, Accountability. Check out the …

How the World is Responding to Industrial Aquaculture

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Learn more about how countries around the world are responding to Offshore Fish Farms. Download the Fact Sheet here. 

Site Infographic

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1. Blue Water Fisheries 2. Manna Fish Farms LLC 3. Velella Epsilon  4. Manna Farms5. Pacific Ocean Aquafarms 6. ‘Ewa Beach 7. Blue Ocean Mariculture

AQUAA Act: Advancing the Quality and Understanding of American Aquaculture Act

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Learn about the AQUAA Act and why it is not good for our oceans, wildlife, and coastal communities. Download the AQUAA Act  fact sheet.

Corporate Control of Our Food System

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Here is our latest fact sheet about corporate control of our food system. Offshore fish farming, also known as open-ocean aquaculture, is a growing industry in the United States. While there are many players in this industry, some of the largest and most influential are corporate entities – check out our fact sheet here.

Recirculating Farms

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A recirculating farm uses clean recycled water as a basis to grow food. These farms can grow plants (hydroponics), fish (aquaculture), or both plants and fish together (aquaponics). There has been an increasing interest in recirculating farms from the community level to industrial. DCO2 supports these systems that are embedded in the communities for local food production, processing, and distribution. …

Concerns With Offshore Aquaculture

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Curious about the problems with offshore aquaculture -also called offshore fish farming? Check out our fact sheet that outlines the environmental, socio-economic, public health concerns and more! Download it here or click below.

Executive Order 13921

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EO 13921 is an Executive Order left over from the Trump Administration. As of May 2023, the Biden Administration fully revoked or partially revoked almost 25% of the EO’s signed by Trump, but not this one.  EO 13921 directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA – to be the lead on promoting offshore finfish aquaculture in U.S federal …

Marine Mammals & Offshore Fish Farming

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Offshore Fish Farming poses a huge threat to the lives of Marine Mammals. From Bottlenose Dolphins to Hawaiian Monk Seals to the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, our Marine Mammals are at risk. Due to giant nets filled with fish and increased prey densities around fish farms, many of these predators are attracted to offshore fish farms. Marine mammals have changed their feeding behaviors, which disrupts the marine food web, and are becoming increasingly entangled with ropes and netting.