A New Hampshire group wants to establish East Coast’s first open-ocean pens for offshore fish farming. However, critics said the project could harm the environment.
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A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming to the waters off New England by raising salmon and trout in open-ocean pens miles from land, but critics fear the plan could harm the environment. The vast majority of U.S. aquaculture, the practice of raising and harvesting fish in controlled settings, takes place in coastal waters or on land, in tanks and ponds. The farm would grow millions of pounds of Atlantic salmon and steelhead trout, two popular seafood species, documents state.