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Tell Your Senators: NO to Industrial Fish Farms!

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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 …

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Fishermen, Shellfish Farmers, Environmental Advocates, Chefs, and Communities Unite Against the MARA Act and Industrial Fish Farming

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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 …