Cramped Unhealthy Conditions
Offshore aquaculture involves cramming thousands of potentially high,value fish, such as cobia and cod, into large cages in U.S. federal waters — between three and 200 miles from shore. These ocean equivalents of land,based factory farms that jam together thousands of pigs, chickens, and cows could threaten the marine environment, human health, wild fish populations, and local fishermen and coastal communities. Drugs and chemicals are used in order to overcome the high risk of disease that exists when thousands of fish are packed together in cages.
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