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The Mashpee Wampanoag Work With a Cape Cod Town to Restore Their Fishing Grounds

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Traditional Knowledge Will Shape the Future Pocknett and his younger cousin, CheeNulKa Pocknett , know about using bivalves to mitigate nitrogen pollution. The two manage First Light Shellfish Farm , the tribes aquacultural operation on Popponesset Bay, which the elder Pocknetts father founded in 1977.

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NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not Everyone Is Onboard.

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The sites pave the way for possibly dozens of new open-pen fish farms as far as three miles offshore, the future home of species that range from carp to salmon. The plan, released last October, outlines national goals for a thriving and sustainable domestic farmed seafood sector. suitable for development. So why, then, is the U.S.