What the MARA Act Means for Offshore Fish Farming and U.S. Fisheries

Hamida Kingeblog, Member Resources

A new explainer from FoodPrint describes how the Marine Aquaculture Research for America (MARA) Act would fast-track offshore, commercial fish farms in U.S. waters under the premise of “research.” It outlines how the bill would worsen environmental harms, expand industrial seafood production, and use public resources rather than supporting America’s current fishing communities. The piece also highlights how these projects …

Several pyramid-shaped offshore aquaculture cages anchored in deep blue water, photographed from the deck of a boat with buoys in the foreground.

Letter to the Editor: AI Won’t Clean Up Industrial Fish Farms

Hamida Kingeblog

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 …