In an open letter dated Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, the Don’t Cage Our Oceans coalition and supporters, called on President Biden to revoke an Executive Order still in place from the Trump Administration. The May 2020 order “pushes agencies to streamline and expedite permitting processes” for industrial finfish farming operations, with little public and congressional […]
Ah, St. Patrick’s Day – that fun time of the year to wear green, look for four-leaf clovers, maybe drink a couple of emerald-colored beers, and eat farmed fish tainted with malachite green. Wait…what was that last one? Offshore finfish farming (OFF) is the mass cultivation of finfish in marine waters, in underwater or floating […]
SARASOTA, FL — On October 30, 2020, The Don’t Cage Our Ocean Coalition joined together today with local and regional partners to file an appeal against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) pollution discharge permit for Velella Epsilon, an industrial finfish aquaculture facility vying for construction permits in federal waters off of Sarasota, Florida. The EPA’s permit […]