Deep-sea aquaculture is proliferating around the planet, promising to ‘feed the world’. Yet many fear the harm this new frontier could wreak on marine life
he enclosures stretch the length of an Olympic-size swimming pool, but from above they appear as floating dots scattered across the ocean. Inside, fish mill about as the submerged pens sway to the currents of the open sea.
A fish farm off the coast of the Moroccan city of M’diq, October 2019. Fishers hope aquaculture will secure their future as fish stocks decline.The Nature Conservancy has long viewed offshore farms as a potential gamechanger for fish production, albeit one threaded with huge challenges. “It is growing rapidly around the world, and it’s an opportunity for conservation,” said Jones. “But it can also potentially come at the detriment of the environment.
in the US, including marine conservation organisations and the Quinault Indian Nation, filed a notice of intent to sue the US Army Corps over its decision to issue a nationwide permit that could pave the way for finfish aquaculture facilities to be built in state and federal waters. They list a slew of additional concerns, from worries that the constant flow of water through the farms will let feed, antibiotics and faecal matter into open waters to the risk that farmed fish could escape and threaten local ecosystems.
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