Resources Letters
400+ Groups, Leaders, and Businesses Urge Congress to Reject MARA Act and Block Ocean Fish Farms
Letters, Member Resources, coastal economies, corporate consolidation, Don’t Cage Our Oceans, fish feed, fishing communities, industrial aquaculture, marine ecosystems, ocean policy, public waters, seafood policy, Domestic Seafood Production Act, Keep Finfish Free Act, MARA act, offshore fish farmingMore than 400 organizations, community leaders, and businesses have signed a joint letter to Congress urging lawmakers to reject the Marine Aquaculture Research for America Act of 2025 (MARA Act). The letter, which was delivered to lawma...
COMMENTS ON EXECUTIVE ORDER 14276: RESTORING AMERICAN SEAFOOD COMPETITIVENESS
Letters, ResourcesDon’t Cage Our Oceans submitted comments in response to Executive Order 14276 on Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness. The Executive Order aims to increase domestic seafood production and reduce U.S. dependence on imports. DCO2...
Louisiana Seafood Leaders to Congress: Don’t Cage Our Coasts
Letters, ResourcesSixty-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 t...
Comments to NOAA regarding the Draft PEIS for Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in the Southern California Bight.
Letters, ResourcesDon’t Cage Our Oceans submitted comments in response to NOAA’s “Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Identification of Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in Federal Waters of Southern California.” Please note that we ...
Comments to NOAA regarding the Draft PEIS for Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Letters, ResourcesDon’t Cage Our Oceans submitted comments in response to NOAA’s “Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Identification of Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in Federal Waters of the Gulf of Mexico.” Please note that we a...
Comments for Proposed Changes to MMPA List of Fisheries for 2025
Letters, ResourcesDon’t Cage Our Oceans submitted comments to the Office of Protected Resources stating that we support NOAA’s proposal to classify certain aquaculture gear as “analogous” to gear used in commercial fisheries; indeed, a cluster of ...
Comments on Velella Epsilon Permit
Letters, ResourcesHealthy Gulf wrote comments to the Environmental Protection Agency in response to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for Ocean Era, LLC. The draft modified NPDES permit authorizes the discharge of industri...
Comments: WA State DNR Commercial Finfish Net Pen Aquaculture Rulemaking
Letters, ResourcesDon’t Cage Our Oceans submitted comments to the Board of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, asking them to codify the rule prohibiting finfish farms in Washington State Waters. The full comments can be read here....
DCO2 Comment Re: Identifying Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in Alaska
Letters, ResourcesDCO2 submitted comments in response to NOAA’s efforts to identify aquaculture opportunity areas in Alaska. In broad strokes, the request for comment asks stakeholders to provide suggestions over a number of parameters, as NOAA has begu...
DCO2 Comments on the Transboundary Permit Request
Letters, ResourcesAt issue is whether Cooke Aquaculture, a Canadian farmed salmon company with a poor track record of environmental stewardship and social responsibility, should be granted a permit to transship farmed salmon from the state of Maine to Can...
Comments Re: Fishery Descriptions
Letters, ResourcesNOAA is required to maintain a list of fisheries and their interactions with marine mammals. NOAA wants to include fish raised in fish farms to this list. Farmed fish is not a fishery! DCO2 submitted comments, outlining issues with offsh...
Request for Information; Data for Marine Spatial Studies in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Letters, ResourcesThere are several reasons why the most prudent option is for NOAA to refrain from establishing AOAs in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Chief among these, is that NOAA lacks the legal authority to regulate aquaculture in federal ...
DCO2 Comments on NOAA Fisheries’ Draft National Seafood Strategy
Letters, ResourcesThank you for this opportunity to provide feedback on NOAA Fisheries’ Draft National Seafood Strategy. Don’t Cage Our Oceans endorses the comments of our member organization, North American Marine Alliance (NAMA), and would like to provi...
Public Comment on Draft PEA Aquaculture Research and Development
Letters, ResourcesRE: Public Comment on Draft PEA Aquaculture Research and Development Don’t Cage Our Oceans is a coalition of 26 diverse organizations representing 4.3 million people, working together to stop the development of offshore finfish farming...
Comments on the Gulf of Mexico AOAs
Letters, Resources, AOA, Gulf of Mexico, NOAADon't Cage Our Oceans submitted comments to NOAA on their Notice of Intent To Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement forIdentification of Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in Federal Waters of the Gulf ofMexico. Click on the...
Comments on the Southern CA Bight AOAs
Letters, ResourcesDon't Cage Our Oceans submitted comments to NOAA regarding their Notice of Intent To Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Identification of One or More Aquaculture Opportunity Area(s) in Southern California. Click...
Letters to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Letters, ResourcesDon't Cage Our Oceans Coalition sent letters to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on their Strategic Plans to Enhance Regulatory Efficiency in Aquaculture, and for Aquaculture Research, expressing concerns about plans...