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In this Friday, Dec. 2, 2016 photo, Conservation International's Luka Mossman, who restores and researches Native Hawaiian fishponds, walks along a barrier wall on Heeia fishpond in Kaneohe, Hawaii. As traditional commercial fishing is threatening fish populations worldwide, U.S. officials are working on a plan to expand fish farming into federal waters around the Pacific Ocean. Some see the move toward aquaculture as a promising solution to overfishing and feeding a hungry planet. But critics say the industrial scale farms could do more harm than good to overall fish stocks and ocean health. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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This Sept. 17, 2015, image made from video provided by NOAA Fisheries, shows a fish farm off the shore of Hawaii's Big Island near Kona. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a plan for managing commercial fish farms, known as aquaculture, in federal waters around the Pacific - a program similar to one recently implemented by NOAA in the Gulf of Mexico. The farms in the Gulf and the Pacific would be the only aquaculture operations in U.S. federal waters. (Paul B. Hillman/NOAA Fisheries via AP)
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Members of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department Swiftwater rescue team rescues a stranded man, left, from the waters in the Los Angeles River Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. A California storm has moved on from the soggy north to the desperately dry south, which has seen hardly a drop in recent weeks. Flash flood watches and warnings were issued for areas up and down the state, especially those where brushfires had denuded hillsides and mountain slopes. (Matt Hartman via AP)
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Members of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department Swiftwater Rescue Team rescues a man, center, from flood waters in the Los Angeles River Thursday, Jan . 5, 2017. A California storm has moved on from the soggy north to the desperately dry south, which has seen hardly a drop in recent weeks. Flash flood watches and warnings were issued for areas up and down the state, especially those where brushfires had denuded hillsides and mountain slopes. (Matt Hartman via AP)
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Coast Guard and Los Angeles Fire Department rescue boats search the waters around the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area. A search-and-rescue operation at Los Angeles Harbor went through the night and continued Thursday despite rainy conditions, Petty Officer Sondra-Kay Kneen said. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)
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A rescue boat searches the waters around the Port of Los Angeles breakwater Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, morning in heavy fog after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials searching the waters of Los Angeles Harbor say there's no sign of a two-person helicopter that went missing after taking off from an LA-area airport. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)
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A rescue boat searches the waters around the Port of Los Angeles breakwater Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, morning in heavy fog after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials searching the waters of Los Angeles Harbor say there's no sign of a two-person helicopter that went missing after taking off from an LA-area airport. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)
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A rescue boat searches the waters around the Port of Los Angeles breakwater Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, morning in heavy fog after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials searching the waters of Los Angeles Harbor say there's no sign of a two-person helicopter that went missing after taking off from an LA-area airport. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)
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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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Posing after the unveiling of the butter sculpture are, from left, state Dairy Princess Halee Wasson, of Centre County, dairy farmer Jim Harbach, of Clinton County, state Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding, and butter sculptors, Jim Victor and Marie Pelton, of Conshohocken. The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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Posing after the unveiling of the butter sculpture are, from left, dairy farmer Jim Harbach, of Clinton County, state Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding, Vernon Horst, of the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association, state Dairy Princess Halee Wasson, of Centre County, and butter sculptors, Marie Pelton and Jim Victor, of Conshohocken. The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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In this image taken from video and released by the U.S. Coast Guard, four offshore supply vessels extinguish a fire on an oil production platform fire 80 miles south off Grand Isle, La., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2016. The pre-dawn fire has been extinguished on an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and there is no sign of pollution in the area, authorities said Thursday. There were no reports of injuries. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
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In this Dec. 15, 2016 photo provided by Dontje Hildebrand two lynx walk along a highway in Molas Pass outside of Silverton in southwestern Colorado. Only about 50 to 250 lynx are believed to be living in the wild in Colorado, and sightings are rare. They were native to Colorado but virtually disappeared from the state by the 1970s because of hunting, poisoning and development. (Dontje Hildebrand via AP)
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This Dec. 15, 2016 photo provided by Dontje Hildebrand shows two lynx walking along a highway in Molas Pass outside of Silverton in southwestern Colorado. Only about 50 to 250 lynx are believed to be living in the wild in Colorado, and sightings are rare. They were native to Colorado but virtually disappeared from the state by the 1970s because of hunting, poisoning and development. (Dontje Hildebrand via AP)
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Lindsey Hodges shops at Kroger located off of Alps Rd. in Athens, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. A menacing winter storm approaching the South could bring freezing rain to states as far south as Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and up to 8 inches of snow in parts of North Carolina and Virginia, forecasters said. The storm also brings the threat of freezing rain to parts of the Deep South including Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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This Dec. 15, 2016 photo provided by Dontje Hildebrand shows a lynx walking along a highway in Molas Pass outside of Silverton in southwestern Colorado. Only about 50 to 250 lynx are believed to be living in the wild in Colorado, and sightings are rare. They were native to Colorado but virtually disappeared from the state by the 1970s because of hunting, poisoning and development. (Dontje Hildebrand via AP)
