Top 10 U.S. seafood industry stories of 2014

8. Taking up farms: A new group, the Coalition for U.S. Seafood Producers (CUSP), is pushing for aquaculture expansion in U.S. waters. This community of feed producers, retailers, researchers and aquariums, among others, certainly has its work cut out for it. There is no clear regulatory framework for finfish aquaculture in U.S. waters, which has made investors squeamish. CUSP plans to get legislative and administrative action to solve this problem, in addition to educating the public about the importance of aquaculture and develop scalable concepts that are both economically and environmentally sustainable. “As a group, we’re not doing enough to ask for aquaculture development,” said Steven Hart, the executive director of the Indiana-based Soy Aquaculture Alliance, one of CUSP’s founding organizations.