Protect the Gulf of Mexico from Dirty & Dangerous Industrial Fish Farms/Aquaculture - Save Our Wetlands - South Louisiana's Environmental Watch Network

July 2005 -Analyzing The Administration’s Ocean Fish Farming Legislation - This bill, which the Administration claims was 10 years in the making, is “to provide the regulatory framework for the development of aquaculture in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ),” the area three to 200 miles offshore. Unfortunately, the bill contains no environmental protections or standards specific to fish farms...
Analysis of Fish Farming Bill (S.1195) - Unfortunately, the bill does not take a look-before-you-leap approach to offshore fish farms delaying the construction until their potential problems are identified, studied and resolved, as already required by some Federal proposals...
Jan. 17, 2008 - Letter to The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council - Notice of Intent to Sue under the Clean Water Act, NEPA, Endangered Species Act, Administrative Procedures Act, Equal Access to Justices Act, Due Process and Equal Protection clause guaranteed under U.S. Constitution, and laws and statutes under the La. Civil Code...
Jan. 11, 2008 - Editorial: Betting the Farm - The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council wants to give 10-year permits to "aquaculture" farmers to raise fish in vast offshore cages. Scheduled to decide on the idea this month, the council must slow down and retool its proposal alongside experts who fully grasp its many risks...
Dec. 12, 2007 - Sustainable, Organic Solutions for Aquaculture & Industrial Fish Farms - Faced with criticism over their environmental record, some arable and livestock farmers have responded by moving to organic methods. Aquacultural farmers are following suit...
Dec. 12, 2007 - Unlikely Allies Oppose Gulf Fish Farming - A public hearing created a rare scene in fish-policy circles: About 70 commercial fishermen, recreational fishermen, environmentalists and just plain citizens - who are often adversaries - cheered each other on for a mutual cause...
Dec. 12, 2007 - Fish Farming Proposal Assailed; Foes pack hearing on Gulf aquaculture - Dozens of people representing the fishing industry and environmental interests Tuesday night blasted a proposal from federal regulators to open the Gulf of Mexico to offshore aquaculture...
Dec. 11, 2007 - Extinction Threat to Wild Salmon - "In the natural system, the youngest salmon are not exposed to sea lice because the adult salmon that carry the parasite are offshore. But fish farms cause a deadly collision between the vulnerable young salmon and sea lice. They are not equipped to survive this, and they don't..."
March 15, 2007 - U.S. Open Ocean Fish-Farming Plan Flayed By Local Experts - The news that the Bush administration has launched a major effort to expand US aquaculture by allowing farms to operate in the open ocean has led local experts to criticise the novel plan as difficult and expensive, and to complain that escaped fish could migrate into local waters...
March 14, 2007 - Protect the Gulf of Mexico from Industrial Fish Farms - The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council released a draft of an amendment that would streamline the permitting and regulation of offshore aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico. This draft fails to adequately address significant threats that offshore aquaculture can pose to consumer health, the marine environment, and coastal communities...
March 13, 2007 - Offshore Aquaculture: Bad News for the Gulf of Mexico - The Gulf Council’s draft Generic Offshore Aquaculture Amendment fails to really consider, among other matters, the possible negative economic consequences of offshore aquaculture...
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