For years, Alaska officials have been resistant to offshore aquaculture , fearing the negative impacts it could have on wild, commercial fisheries. But they could lose this decades-long battle if a new proposal by a Mississippi congressman becomes law.
A bill that would establish a federal system for regulating and permitting offshore aquaculture farms in the United States is moving forward, but it doesn't include a key provision Alaska officials are demanding that would allow states such to opt out and prohibit offshore farming in federal waters off its coast.
