Group sues federal government over factory fish farming permit in Hawaii

Food & Water Watch and Hawaiian environmental group KAHEA an advocacy group are suing the federal government agencies that has granted Kona Blue Water Farms the first commercial offshore aquaculture permit. The plaintiff has claimed that the federal government lacks the authority to grant the permit.

“Factory fish farms in Hawaii have damaged the marine environment, are heavily reliant on government funding and tax breaks, and have interfered with Native Hawaiian cultural practices. Yet the federal government is hell-bent on allowing them, even when they have no authority to do so,” said Food & Water Watch Executive Director, Wenonah Hauter. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers