T’S BEEN MORE THAN THREE decades since the U.S. government first tested the waters of offshore fish farming. In 1990 a company received a federal permit to raise nearly 50 million pounds of Atlantic salmon a year in pens anchored some 50 miles off Massachusetts. But the project became mired in legal questions and environmental concerns and never materialized. Other proposals have hit similar snags, and today the industry is limited to inland and
A Matter of Scale
Apr 01, 2024
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