{"id":1735,"date":"2026-02-13T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/bipartisan-bill-seeks-to-advance-offshore-u-s-aquaculture\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:00:18","slug":"bipartisan-bill-seeks-to-advance-offshore-u-s-aquaculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/bipartisan-bill-seeks-to-advance-offshore-u-s-aquaculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Advance Offshore U.S. Aquaculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pulled-sidebar pulled-sidebar-center\">\n<div class=\"pulled-sidebar-title\">Article Summary<\/div>\n<p>\u2022 The MARA Act would enable commercial-scale demonstration projects of all types\u2014 finfish, seaweed, and shellfish\u2014in federal waters (3 to 200 nautical miles offshore).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Supporters say it\u2019s needed as a first step toward cutting red tape and reducing U.S. reliance on imported seafood. They also point out the need to feed a growing population, and that the open ocean is a more stable environment for raising seafood than are coastal waters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Opponents fear that offshore farming could repeat the mistakes of large-scale coastal fisheries and argue that other acts being considered by Congress could encourage local fish processing and distribution, cutting the need for imports.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 So far, there\u2019s little research on the ecological impacts of submersible pens in deep ocean water. The act is intended to promote science-backed pilot projects with stringent oversight.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Summary \u2022 The MARA Act would enable commercial-scale demonstration projects of all types\u2014 finfish,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}