Lawmakers, Enviros Maneuver in Last-Gasp Bid to Block Deepwater Aquaculture
With a deadline looming for approval of a federal plan that would open the Gulf of Mexico to deepwater fish farming, House lawmakers and conservationists are plotting strategies to block such offshore ventures until Congress creates a system to regulate them. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Aquaculture sounds good until you look into the full set of implications. Penned fish get sick and either infect wild fish or get antibiotics that get into all other wild organisms, as do commonly used growth hormones. Tamed, week pen fish escape and pollute the gene pool of wild species. Caution is in order.