Sixty-five Louisiana seafood and community leaders are urging Senators Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy to back the bipartisan Keep Finfish Free Act of 2025. The letter calls for protecting Louisiana’s coastline and seafood economy from the harms of industrial offshore fish farming, which pollutes local waters, spreads disease, and threatens wild fisheries.
The signers emphasize that Louisiana already produces abundant, healthy seafood and that corporate-run fish farms would undermine local livelihoods, food security, and the environment. They argue that NOAA’s push for ocean fish farming wastes taxpayer money and undermines traditional fisheries, and they are asking Congress to step in and prevent it.