Court Stops Industrial Fish Farms in Gulf of Mexico

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, an unusual coalition of fishing and public interest groups, represented by the Center for Food Safety , won a lawsuit challenging the Department of Commerce's rules that would have permitted, for the first time, industrial finfish farms offshore in U.S. waters."This is a landmark victory for protecting our oceans, for fishing communities and conservationists," said George Kimbrell, CFS Legal Director and lead counsel in the case. "Allowing industrial net-pen aquaculture and its known environmental harms in the Gulf of Mexico was a grave threat . . .