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Norway's government aims to levy a 35% resource tax rate on the profits of salmon and trout farmers, it said on Tuesday, down from an initial proposal of 40% which sharply hit fish farming stock ...
The agency received 50,500 public comments on the biological integrity, diversity, and environmental health (BIDEH) proposal, which also would have limited the use of predator control ...
A canopy could be built over England's largest ‘land fish farm’ near Downton because its new tenant, Coldwater Salmon Ltd, ...
Concerned residents deliver 2,500 petitions asking NOAA, Biden Administration to reverse federal plan for fish farms in Santa Barbara ...
A New Hampshire group wants to establish East Coast’s first open-ocean pens for offshore fish farming. However, critics said the project could harm the environment.
The proposal was recently changed to raising redfish from almaco jack. They also reduced the amount of fish from 88,000 pounds to 55,000 pounds and changed the net from copper to monofilament.
Such fish farming operations undermine the traditional fishing industry by selling a cheaper, lower-quality product and excluding fishing vessels from areas where net pens are located, said Amy ...
Chris Kirkham, The Times-Picayune Apr 20, 2010 Apr 20, 2010 2 min to read ...
The bill also provides the choice to opt out of the law, something Sen. Ted Stevens (R) of Alaska suggested when Congress first took up the administration’s fish-farm proposal.