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MEDIA RELEASE The Ocean Stewards Institute has applauded a decision by a Federal judge to grant summary judgment to NOAA in a lawsuit over a permit issued for aquaculture research in the open ocean. Judge Susan Oki Mollway released her decision last week, clarifying and affirming NOAA’s authority to grant a permit for aquaculture under […]

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Velella drifter pen project completes grow-out miles off Big Island

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MEDIA RELEASE / Marketwire Kona Blue Water Farms, Inc., the first integrated marine fish hatchery and open ocean mariculture operation in the United States, today announced that the company has been awarded a Saltonstall-Kennedy grant from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for research into alternative protein sources to reduce the reliance on marine proteins […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Kona Blue Water Farms released an analysis that demonstrates sustainably maricultured fish actually have 60 times less ecological footprint on the ocean than wild-caught fish.  Kona Blue’s analysis supports the recent recommendation from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that called for an increase in fish farming amid falling wild populations and […]

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