May 28, 2025
The federal government will not appeal a decision to set aside a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' permit intended to speed up industrial aquaculture in public ocean waters, ending the dispute and any future use of the structures off the country's eastern and western coasts.
March 18, 2025
A Washington federal court judge set aside as unlawful a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' nationwide permit intended to speed up offshore aquaculture through the construction of industrial-size facilities in federal ocean waters off the country's eastern and western coasts.
April 01, 2024
The Army Corps of Engineers is trying to "muddy the water" to fend off a challenge to a nationwide permit opening ocean waters to aquaculture operations, failing to justify why the permit shouldn't be scrapped, the Quinault Indian Nation and nonprofit allies have told a Washington federal judge.
November 13, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a nationwide permit opening federal ocean waters up to industrial finfish aquaculture operations without congressional authorization or adequate environmental reviews, a coalition of nonprofits and the Quinault Indian Nation said in a bid to have the permit struck down.
November 15, 2022
A group of nonprofits and the Quinault Indian Nation asked a Washington federal judge to scrap a nationwide permit that they say the Army Corps of Engineers improperly issued to allow industrial fish farm structures in state and federal ocean waters around the country.