Eddy+&+Justin

Plan:
The United States federal government should create a National Offshore Aquaculture Framework that ==== - authorizes the NOAA as the lead federal agency for regulating offshore aquaculture and gives it authority to determine appropriate locations for, permit, regulate, monitor, and enforce offshore aquaculture in the EEZ ====

Global overfishing is real – only new sustainable practices can solve
Sumaila 12 – professor and director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of B.C (Rashid, “Declining fisheries will affect us all soon enough”, Feb 1st, //LexisNexis//) //J.N.E

The sad story; toward common goals.

It collapses fisheries globally

 * Pauly 9** --- professor at the Fisheries Centre of the University of British Columbia (9/28/2009, Daniel, “Aquacalypse Now,” [], JMP)

The jig, however; watery horror show.

Overfishing will destroy the ocean in the short term

 * Oceana 7** - adapted from a briefing given on May 24, 2007 at the World Trade Organization by Andrew Sharpless, Chief Executive Officer of Oceana and Dr. Rashid Sumaila, Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre (“STATE OF THE WORLD’S FISHERIES”, []) //J.N.E

What Will Be the Future; all decrease exponentially.

Specifically, it destroys regional diversities – interdependence
Science Daily 14 – leading publishers of science news – citing Flordia State University research (“Snowball effect of overfishing highlighted”, Jan 7th, []) //J.N.E

Florida State University; Méditerranéenne et Tropicale in France.

Tipping point by 2020
AFP ’14 – Agence France Presse – one of the oldest most respected news agencies (“World must act within five years to save oceans from pollution and overfishing: watchdog”, June 24th, []) //J.N.E

The world’s oceans; Pew Charitable Trusts.

Continued loss of biodiversity causes extinction

 * Bamosky et al 11** - Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, University of California Museum of Paleontology, California, USA. University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, California, USA. Human Evolution Research Center, California, USA, (Anthony D. Barnosky, Nicholas Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, Guinevere O. U. Wogan, Brian Swartz, Tiago B. Quental, Charles Marshall, Jenny L. McGuire, Emily L. Lindsey, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Ben Mersey & Elizabeth A. Ferrer, “Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?”, Nature Journal, Volume 471, Peer Reviewed) //J.N.E

Palaeontologists characterize; today’s species towards extinction.

The plan solves, it creates a sustainable model that trades off with wild fish stock

 * Smith 12** --- J.D. Harvard Law School, 2012 (4/19/2012, Turner, “Greening the Blue Revolution: How History Can Inform a Sustainable Aquaculture Movement,” [], JMP)

IV. The Benefits and Harms of Modern; its full, impressive potential.

Overfishing destroys global food production – aquaculture solves

 * Strasser 14** --- Senior Editor of ThinkProgress (4/21/2014, Annie-Rose, “The New, Innovative And More Efficient Way Of Feeding People,” [], JMP)

Don Kent, President; //driving massive deforestation//.

Aquaculture is both sufficient and necessary to guarantee long term food security – no other sources can increase production fast enough
Hishamunda et al 9 - Fishery Planning Officer at the Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department (Nathanael, Junning Cai – Assistant Professor at Central University of Finance and Economics, PingSun Leung – professor at College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, “Commercial aquaculture and economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security, FAO, [], JZG)

Aquaculture’s contribution to food; source for fish products.

a) Food Availability
(Nathanael, Junning Cai – Assistant Professor at Central University of Finance and Economics, PingSun Leung – professor at College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, “Commercial aquaculture and economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security, FAO, [], JZG)
 * Hishamunda et al 9** - Fishery Planning Officer at the Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department

Contribution to food availability; population in these countries.

b) Food access

 * Hishamunda et al 9** - Fishery Planning Officer at the Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department (Nathanael, Junning Cai – Assistant Professor at Central University of Finance and Economics, PingSun Leung – professor at College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, “Commercial aquaculture and economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security, FAO, [], JZG)

Contribution to food access; tax revenues.

Food insecurity will collapse civilization
Brown, 9 --- founder of both the WorldWatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute (May 2009, Lester R., Scientific American, “Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” Ebsco)

//The biggest threat; global civilization itself//.

Current regulatory structure blocks development of offshore aquaculture in federal waters --- leads to both under and over regulation and leaves the door open for inevitable legal challenges
Johns, 13 --- J.D. Candidate, USC Law 2013 (March 2013, Kristen L., Southern California Law Review, FARM FISHING HOLES: GAPS IN FEDERAL REGULATION OF OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE,” 86 S. Cal. L. Rev. 681, JMP)

The current regime for regulating; legal bases for authority will allow opponents of the aquaculture industry to effectively challenge any project.

Reliance on seafood imports will wreck the domestic seafood industry which is key to the overall economy. The only suitable alternative is self-sufficient national production.
Corbin, 10 --- President of Aquaculture Planning & Advocacy LLC (May/ June 2010, John S., Marine Technology Society Journal, “Sustainable U.S. Marine Aquaculture Expansion, a Necessity,” [|http://www.ljhs.sandi.net/faculty/DJames/NOSB/Study Guides/Aquaculture MTS 44.3.pdf]ingentaconnect database, JMP)

Seafood Consumption in America Today; to satisfy its many millions of customers.

The impact is global nuclear war
Freidberg & Schonfeld, 8 --- *Professor of Politics and IR at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, AND **senior editor of Commentary and a visiting scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton (10/21/2008, Aaron and Gabriel, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, Wall Street Journal, [])

With the global financial; of continued American leadership.

Solvency
====The plan, based on the National Sustainable Offshore Aquaculture Act, is the best way to develop environmentally sustainable offshore aquaculture. It is a product of systemic research from relevant stakeholders.==== Lead agency k2 administaration/consistency Noaa key – expertise in fisheries/oceans – scholarly consensus Legally binding regulations solve – force accountability. Johns, 13 --- J.D. Candidate, USC Law 2013 (March 2013, Kristen L., Southern California Law Review, FARM FISHING HOLES: GAPS IN FEDERAL REGULATION OF OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE,” 86 S. Cal. L. Rev. 681, JMP

IV. DEVELOPING A NEW FRAMEWORK; but not at the expense of a healthy ocean.

The plan sets a global model that saves marine ecosystems
Us gets modelled, an aggressive policy will be pursued globally – encourage better standards. Naylor, 6 --- Fellow at the Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University (Spring 2006, Rosamond L., “Environmental Safeguards for Open-Ocean Aquaculture,” [], JMP)

The need for national environmental; //n other countries//.

The plan creates a __national standard__ for sustainable aquaculture --- protects marine environments and prevents collapse of seafood industries
Naylor & Leonard, 10 --- *director of the program on food security and the environment at Stanford, AND **director of the aquaculture program at the Ocean Conservancy in Santa Cruz (2/15/2010, Rosamond L. Naylor and George H. Leonard, “Aquaculture made safe,” [], JMP)

While Americans' appetite for; U.S. ocean fish farming.

Plan ensures sustainable development of aquaculture --- resolves seafood trade deficit and rebuilds wild fish stocks
Johns, 13 --- J.D. Candidate, USC Law 2013 (March 2013, Kristen L., Southern California Law Review, FARM FISHING HOLES: GAPS IN FEDERAL REGULATION OF OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE,” 86 S. Cal. L. Rev. 681, JMP)