Bush Administration's Plan to Open Federal Waters to Fish Farming

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Statement by Andrea Kavanagh, Director, Pure Salmon Campaign, on the Bush Administration's Plan to Open Federal Waters to Fish Farming

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To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Dave Bard, [phone], for the Pure Salmon Campaign

WASHINGTON, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Andrea Kavanagh, Director of the Pure Salmon Campaign:

Today at the International Boston Seafood Show, the Bush administration unveiled its plan to allow industrial-scale fish farming in the open ocean. If approved by Congress, corporations will soon be able to raise fish in open- net pens in waters three to 200 miles offshore.

"Once again, the Bush administration has failed to do its homework. It wants to turn our oceans into a giant collection of corporate fish farms, but it hasn't given any thought to what this means for the environment, consumers and local communities.

"The administration needs to do its due diligence and conduct an environmental impact statement before it pursues any plans that could devastate our oceans. We are only now beginning to understand the impacts of fish farms located closer to the shore. Putting these farms in the open ocean could present a whole new host of problems..............


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