BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Offshore fish farming would be allowed in the Gulf of Mexico under a plan approved by the agency that sets the body of water’s fishing rules. Fishermen complained that making ...

Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off coppery scales. These red drum are farmed, not wild. They circle inside a ...

President Donald Trump’s first-term push to open the Gulf of Mexico and other federal waters to fish farming has come to a halt in the early days of his second term. A federal judge in Washington ...

Bipartisan senators released legislation last week that would speed the process of putting commercial-scale fish farms in federal waters. The “Marine Aquaculture Research for America (MARA) Act of ...

Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off coppery scales. These red drum are farmed, not wild. They circle inside a ...

President Donald Trump’s first-term push to open the Gulf of Mexico and other federal waters to fish farming has come to a halt in the early days of his second term. A federal judge in Washington ...

One of Ocean Era's geodesic cages floats in the water near Kona, Hawaii. Ocean Era hopes to launch a similar test project near Sarasota, Florida. (Photo by Rick Decker, courtesy of Ocean Era) The ...

Environmental groups are appealing the EPA's approval of a modified waste discharge permit for an offshore fish farm near Sarasota, Florida. Ocean Era, the company behind the project, argues the ...