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Fish Farm Threatens Coral Reef, Enviros Say

     HONOLULU (CN) - Environmentalists and native Hawaiians say the National Marine Fisheries Service broke the law to bend over for big business and issue a "Special Coral Reef Ecosystem Fishing Permit" to let private company to run a "a free-floating fish farm in a vast area off the western coast of the Island of Hawaii."
     Food and Water Watch and Kahea say the NMFS and the Secretary of Commerce issued the permit illegally, under pressure from the fish farmer, and did so without the required environmental impact study.
     Kona Blue Water Farms' 1-year permit "is the first ever commercial fishing permit issued for an aquaculture facility in federal waters," according to the federal complaint.
     Kona Blue is not named as a defendant. But the plaintiffs say Kona Blue misrepresented the scope and scale of its project and did not conduct a full environmental impact study, and that the NMFS and Secretary of Commerce failed to fully evaluate the project's effects.
     The NMFS reduced the public comment period on the project from 90 days to 10, claiming it did so to "'meet the applicable deadline for acting on the coral reef ecosystem permit,' even though the regulations for issuing a special permit provide more than 90 days for a decision to be made after an application is submitted, and, even then, they allow for a delay when issuing a permit in that time period is impracticable," according to the complaint.
     Kona Blue wants to use the area to "propagate an estimated 8,000 pounds of fish for commercial sale and distribution," according to the complaint.
     The floating fish farm would include "two spherical aquaculture cages composed of brass-mesh netting and connected by tow-lines to an eighty-foot boat.

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