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

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But finalizing the plan has been a slow process. Overdevelopment has destroyed abundant wetland areas that shaped Wampanoag life for thousands of years, and water pollution threatens many aquatic species essential to the tribes survival. At right, an example of a privatized water access point in the resort community of New Seabury.

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

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Opponents to the plan point to known risks, including ecological disasters like the infamous 2017 salmon spill that took place in Washington State waters when a salmon net pen collapsed, releasing roughly 300,000 Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound. However, not everyone sees it this way. They found that the U.S. Natsoulas says that the U.S.