Any type of industrial animal agriculture operation is just a bad idea, whether you're talking about pigs, chickens, mink or fish.  Pollution, animal cruelty, disease, and so on.  I certainly don't want my tax money going to this.  The way solve the problem of declining fish populations is protecting habitat, reducing pollution and encouraging people to eat less seafood, not subsidizing industrial fish farms.

The proposed rules would forbid non-native species and require that one-fourth of the brood stock change every year, so the gulf doesn't fill up with one, genetically vulnerable strain.

That's better than most countries, at least.

Fish farms and aquaculture in general are tremendously detrimental to the environment. However, a big issue, and one that isn't being addressed enough is the elevated risk that eating farmed seafood presents for human health. Farmed fish have high concentrations of antibiotics, heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants in their tissues. Eating farmed seafood can seriously compromise human health just as the process of industrial aquaculture can seriously harm the marine environment. Aquaculture isn't a viable solution to having overfished our seas.

We need to save our oceans.  Not pollute them even more.  

Do some research and see how destructive these farms are to the surrounding ocean environment, and the life that exists there.  Plus the fish produced by these farms are highly toxic.  Research it.

This government makes decisions based on money, not facts.

It is time to replace these people who are supposed to be protecting us citizens.

Support and vote for Dennis Kucinich.  He cares for the people and environment.

Peace...
Curtis