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In a letter to the editor at IntraFish, farm policy expert Anthony Pahnke says AI and automation won’t fix offshore aquaculture because the real problem is the industry’s intensive, industrial scale. He writes that AI tools like sensors and automated feeders mask the harmful impacts of factory-style aquaculture, which mirrors patterns seen in industrial agriculture: corporate consolidation, ecosystem destruction, mass …
Act now: Tell your senators to reject the MARA Act and protect healthy oceans, fishing families, and coastal communities. The MARA Act (S. 2586) is a bill that would open the floodgates for factory fish farms in U.S. federal waters. It dresses up these farms as “research,” but in reality it would allow corporations to secure 10-year leases to plant …
For Immediate Release: September 2, 2025 Contact: Feini Yin, Communications Director, North American Marine Alliance, feini@namanet.orgHamida Kinge, Content Strategist, North American Marine Alliance, hamida@namanet.org WASHINGTON — Don’t Cage Our Oceans and a broad coalition of stakeholders strongly oppose the Marine Aquaculture Research for America (MARA) Act. Introduced by Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), this new bill …
