Sens. Booker and Sullivan Introduce Keep Finfish Free Act Banning Fish Farms in US EEZ
Yesterday, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) introduced the Keep Finfish Free Act, bipartisan legislation that would prohibit federal agencies from issuing any permit or taking any other action to authorize or facilitate commercial finfish aquaculture operations in the U.S. EEZ, unless Congress passes future legislation explicitly authorizing such permits.
If the title sounds familiar, it’s because a near-identically titled House Resolution was introduced in early 2021 by Representative Don Young of Alaska, a Republican. It, too, was bipartisan...
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