The US aquaculture industry -- despite being a source of innovation for aquaculture around the world -- has no lobbyist in Washington D.C., according to panelists and audience members at the Aquaculture America conference in Seattle who spoke out during Monday's session on how to grow the aquaculture industry in the United States. This problem has many spokes, considering it means US congress is nearly blind to the multifarious political problems aquaculture industry deals with, from taxation to permitting problems, sources said. [...]