Source: Matthew Burns, WRAL, 5/24/17

A proposal moving through the state Senate calls for leasing waters off the North Carolina coast so people can farm fish.
Senate Bill 410 would allow people to lease from 100 to 1,500 acres in the state's sounds and the Atlantic Ocean, where they could build underwater pens to raise various species of fish that they could later sell to supermarkets and restaurants. 
"We're creating an industry here," sponsor Sen. Bill Cook, R-Beaufort, told members of the Senate Finance Committee..."

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