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Comments on Kampachi Farms Permit
The EPA must address impacts to human health and the environment and endangered and threatened species, concerns regarding red tide, and threats from increasingly intense storms in the region.
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Holmes Beach, FL Resolution Opposing Marine Finfish Aquaculture in Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Offshore aquaculture will put Florida’s environment, beaches, marine resources and local economies at risk; therefore, the Holmes Beach Mayor and City Commission express its opposition to these activi…
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Comments on FARTF Outline
The draft outline makes clear that the federal government’s current focus is on efficiency and predictability for aquaculture industry participants and investors.
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Comments on Draft NSPFA Outline
The draft outline – titled “Ensuring Sustainable and Responsible Aquaculture Production in the United States” – fails to acknowledge the socio-economic, public health, and environmental proble…
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Sarasota Community Members, Experts Speak Out Against Proposed Offshore Fish Farm
Today’s hearing makes it crystal clear that Sarasota residents do not want this harmful project off their coast.
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Velella Epsilon Offshore Aquaculture Facility
The proposed Velella Epsilon project is an offshore fish farm that involves the concentrated cultivation of finfish in net pens, pods and cages. These industrial ocean fish farms allow free exchange b…
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Joint Comments on NPDES Permit
For decades, the federal government has pushed to expand marine finfish aquaculture in federal waters, despite massive public opposition and negative global experiences with the industry, including bu…
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Friends of the Earth and Earthjustice go to court over NOAA’s lack of FOIA transparency
Friends of the Earth today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Maryland against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for violations of the agency’s obligations under the Fre…
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EPA publishes draft permit for floating factory farm
The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans for an industrial ocean fish farm to operate in the Gulf of Mexico late Friday afternoon.
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Support the Keep Finfish Free Act (HR 2467)
The federal government is working toward permitting industrial ocean sh farms in federal ocean waters without explicit Congressional authorization. The Keep Fin sh Free Act (H.R. 2467) simply provide…