date:May 04, 2014
The longstanding effort to get the U.S. Department of Agriculture to approve standards for organic seafood production took a major setback this week during a National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting in San Antonio.
In a letter to the Aquaculture Working Group in which he chairs, aquaculture expert George Lockwood said a hostile atmosphere permeated the NOSB members due to unilateral decisions to change the approval process for synthetic materials and a well-organized anti-aquaculture eff