Rebecca J. Goldburg

Fish farming, known as aquaculture, is a growing U.S. industry. Rebecca J. Goldburg maintains in the following viewpoint that federal agencies must design new regulations to protect the marine environment from aquaculture’s impact. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency should set strict guidelines to control aquaculture effluent from polluting nearby waters, she argues. In addition, controls should be established to protect wild fish, which are being depleted for use as feed for farmed fish. According to Goldburg, wild fish are also endangered when they breed with genetically engineered farmed fish that escape their pens, which can weaken wild fish’s ability to survive. Goldburg is a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund.

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