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The California Coastal Commission on Wednesday approved the state’s first aquaculture farm to be located in federal waters about eight miles offshore of Long Beach.Known as Catalina Sea Ranch,
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Rescooped by PIRatE Lab from Coastal Restoration |
Scoop.it!
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This effort offers the opoprtunity to supply shellfish to local So Cal markets with markedly reduced carbon footprints.
Our first mariculture facility in federal waters off of the California coast. Cool beans!
While the cltivation of non-native species is normally a red flag, in this case the cat is long, long out of the bag across the entire west coast. As such, this was a non-issue.
While California has lots of good intentions with our strong environmental laws, they have in many instances acted to quash innovation and coastal-dependent industries (this is why, for example, we have no offshore alternative energy production...even though we design and create systems that get installed in Oregon, Mexico, etc.).