Fishing and Public Interest Groups File Challenge to Feds’ Unprecedented Decision to Establish Aquaculture in Offshore U.S. Waters

Industrial aquaculture would bring economic and environmental harms to Gulf of Mexico and beyond

New Orleans, LA–(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2016—Center for Food Safety has filed a new lawsuitchallenging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new federal regulations permitting, for the first time, industrial aquaculture offshore in U.S. federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The plaintiff coalition CFS is representing in the case make up a broad array of significant interests in the Gulf…