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Council briefed on NOAA aquaculture opportunity areas, MPC to monitor project proposals and BOEM leasing
Summary
The Pacific Fishery Management Council received an update from its Marine Planning Committee on NOAA’s final programmatic EIS identifying 10 aquaculture opportunity areas off Southern California and on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s revised national offshore oil and gas leasing program; advisory bodies will continue monitoring and prepare comment as projects and draft documents are released.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council heard an update on marine planning matters, including NOAA’s recently published programmatic environmental impact statement that designates 10 Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in federal waters off Southern California and work underway at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to refresh the national OCS oil and gas leasing program.
Mike Conroy, co‑chair of the council’s Marine Planning Committee, told the council NOAA selected what the agency described as “alternative 4b,” authorizing the possibility of shellfish, macroalgae, finfish or multispecies aquaculture in the identified AOAs. Conroy said the programmatic EIS is a planning‑level NEPA document that does not itself create binding…
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