The cardboard gravestones read “RIP Local fisherman,” “RIP Wild Fish,” and “RIP Humpback Whales.” Assembled in response to new aquaculture sites planned off the coast of California, the gravestones ...

Today, NOAA Fisheries released two draft programmatic environmental impact statements (PEIS) to support the identification of proposed Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in Southern California and ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Friday that it has identified three different locations off the Texas coast as being Aquaculture Opportunity Areas. Aquaculture ...

The release of two draft environmental impact statements makes good on a Trump-era executive order aimed at removing hurdles for U.S. fish farms. NOAA is advancing a pair of environmental studies that ...

Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration four years ago and is likely ...

An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by President ...

Public comments on federal plans to create commercial aquaculture sites in the Gulf of Mexico – including areas offshore of Collier, Sarasota and Pinellas counties – were mostly negative and many of ...

US aquaculture is in a state of transformation led by initiatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Fisheries), coupled with the increasing prevalence of certifications, ...

Seaweed farming with Seagrove Kelp Co. in Doyle Bay, near Craig, on Prince of Wales Island. (From NOAA Fisheries) Aquaculture is a new, but rapidly growing industry in Alaska. That’s according to a ...

Employees check a line ribbon kelp, or Alaria marginata, in March at Seagrove Kelp’s Doyle Bay Farm, six miles outside of Craig, Alaska. State regulations require kelp farmers to gather seed from at ...

The NOAA National Sea Grant College Program, through national, state, and territory-based investments, has a long history of supporting coastal, marine, and Great Lakes aquaculture development in the ...