Is the United States Ready for Offshore Aquaculture?
PHOTO COURTESY OF: OPEN BLUE
April 20, 2017 — Editor’s note: This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a non-profit investigative news organization.
Harlon Pearce walks muck-booted…
Fishpeople and Open Blue crowned winners of Seafood Excellence Awards
SEAFOOD EXPO NORTH AMERICA 2017
By Madelyn Kearns, Editor
Published on Sunday, March 19, 2017
Fishpeople Seafood and Open Blue were announced as the winners of the 2017 Seafood Excellence Awards today, 19 March, at the Seafood Expo North…
Mexico, Earth Ocean Farms Take Steps to Aid Recovery of Totoaba
SEAFOODSOURCE.COM
By Cliff White, Editor
Published on Thursday, September 01, 2016
A collaboration between Mexican governmental agencies and marine aquaculture firm Earth Ocean Farms is aiming to improve the plight of the totoaba, an…
Feds Endorse Gulf of Mexico Fish Farms
THE ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD
By KEVIN WADLOW
Florida Keys Keynoter
Offshore fish farms could soon be raising native species in Gulf of Mexico waters.
Beginning in early February, commercial marine farmers can begin seeking permits from…
Red Tape is Tying up U.S. push for Fish Farms, Entrepreneurs Say
The Orange County Register
By Julie Watson / The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO – Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported – a fact that the Obama administration vowed to start turning around by expanding fish and…
Ocean Farm Technologies and OceanSpar Join Forces. New Company to Develop Innovative, Open-Ocean Products
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Seattle, WA and Morrill, ME
On January 1, 2015, Ocean Farm Technologies and OceanSpar merged to form InnovaSea Systems, Inc., a new company committed to developing the next wave of innovative, open-ocean products and…
OCEANS: Debate churns as NOAA is set to open U.S. waters to aquaculture
Emily Yehle, E&E reporter
Greenwire: Thursday, November 20, 2014
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060009321
Giant cages float off the shores of Hawaii, housing hundreds of thousands of yellowtail snapper in the deep waters of the Pacific.The…
Meet San Diego's ‘Aquacowboy’
Photo courtesy of Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute
BY: CLARE LESCHIN-HOARCONNECT | OCTOBER 8, 2014
Voices of San Diego | voiceofsandiego.org
America’s running a deep seafood deficit.
We control more ocean than any nation in…
The Other Other White Meat
The Other Other White Meat
Ever heard of cobia? Meet tomorrow’s fish—and a new way to farm that one man wants to bring to a coast near you.
Daniel Stone
Photographs and videos by Spencer Millsap
PUBLISHED APRIL 30, 2014
Brian O’Hanlon…
Taking Aquaculture to New Depths
January 3, 2014 - 4:26pm BRUCE ERSKINE BUSINESS REPORTER
THE CHRONICLE HERALD
N.S. exec: Open Blue cages deeper than usual fish farms, process more eco-friendly
Open Blue Global Services (Canada) Inc. president Mike Magnus. (FILE)
Mike…