Earlier this week, US President Barack Obama issued a series of executive actions to help expand ocean protection, combat illegal fishing and seafood fraud, and bolster domestic shellfish aquaculture.
As part of his announcement, the Interagency Working Group on Aquaculture (IWGA) part of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Science, released its five-year plan, providing a "road map" for how best to grow the country's fish and shellfish farming industry.
"The United States has not captured the economic opportunity of the production and processing segment of the seafood value chain or the opportunity for added employment in these sectors," the authors of the plan wrote.
