Fish farming may threaten rare Gulf whale

Fish farming may threaten rare Gulf whale

By BOB MUDGE

Source: yoursun

8/2/2022

Credit: NOAA FISHERIES

The site approved for the Velella Epsilon fish farm in federal waters west of Venice is one of just three potential aquaculture opportunity areas under consideration off Florida’s Gulf coast.

There are six others — three in the central Gulf south of Louisiana and Mississippi and three east of Texas — as well as 10 in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast.

It’s part of a collusive effort between fish farming companies and the federal government to divide up national waters for profit, James Mitchell, legislative director of Don’t Cage Our Oceans, said.