Sounds like an efficient plan, though the produce will likely be dearer than the Mexican imports. (Veggies, that is! 😉
Southeast Alaska bumper sticker: “Friends don’t let friends eat farmed fish”
And they mean it. I was recently given 45 lbs of wild Alaska salmon by a local fisherman who had no more room in his freezer. There is just no comparison between farmed and wild salmon.
This is fake news. This is not the first “fake” farmed Salmon in the US. My High School had a Chinook Salmon hatchery and the class associated with it was a biology credit called “Aquaculture” back when I was there. Farmed Atlantic “Salmon” is nothing new. I was in Aquaculture back in 1886-1987.
If you live on the West Coast and know anything about fish....these are at best farmed steelhead.
It’s wild salmon or no salmon at all.
I for one, can’t stand Salmon, unless it’s Sushi.
I love the use of the fish water to grow plants. But farming salmon takes all the health right out of them. They don’t have the omega 3s the wild ones have.
Is this getting to the franken~salmon now ? I hear it is now legal ((
Just in time for the next ice age to kick in,
unless they’re feeding these salmon fish meal from wild-caught fish, algae, or plankton, then these farm-raised fish will contain zero omega-3 fish oil, and you might as well just eat chicken, pork, or beef.
I hope they feed the plants supplemental nutrition over and beyond just fish waste.
A relative grew catfish and recycled the water though a hydroponic garden. The tomatoes tasted horrible.
With all the radiation contammination from Fukashima this will be about the only way to ensure your fish is safe. Fukashima is getting ready to dump another 700,000 gallons of radioactive water into the ocean, rather than store it.
I think the ‘first of its kind’ hype applies to the hydroponic fish & feed waste disposal - a recycle system.
Other than that its the same food dyed, chemical, and drugged inferior fish. Also inedible unless caught in the wild.
These fish are predators - they eat the juveniles of other fish in the wild. This is all well and good as long as they are in their native Atlantic environment, but transport them to the West Coast or to the Great Lakes is asking for disaster.
Currently, there was a storm that broke an Atlantic salmon pen lose under suspicious circumstances in Washington State, releasing 350,000 Atlantics into the wild. Washington State now faces a crisis as these fish will destroy runs native salmon: Coho, Chinook, Pink, Chum, and Sockeye. They will bred, making the natives extinct.
Some history: The Salmon in the Great Lakes are Washington State fish originally taken from the Skagit river runs when Washington State illegal sold eyed-eggs (fertile) to the surrounding states. Commercial salmon fishermen in WA were subsequently blamed for the short fall and forbidden to fish when these stocks might be present in the state designated fishing areas of Puget Sound; the result was that other runs for different rivers were under harvested and the spawning grounds overcrowded, leading to a short fall in those runs as well.
Now due to the greed of the fish farming industry, they have brought their mess the the Great Lakes. Love the hype ‘hydroponics’ O so sustainable ...
When one of these pens suffers a failure ( and they will) brought on by storm, poor maintenance, or deliberate destruction (as is likely the case in WA for the insurance), those Great Lakes Salmon, nee Skagit River, will begin to disappear until the Lakes see the battle between Atlantic Salmon and Asian Carp for supremacy.
What am I missing here? 40,000 square feet of Salmon ponds is 0.9184 acres. That’s supposed to carry 120,000 lbs. of Salmon? That’s 3 lbs. of salmon (I don’t know how large each fish is) per square foot of water. By comparison, in a catfish pond with aeration and artificial feeding, one MIGHT be able to go to 2000 x 2 lb. fish (4000 lbs.) per acre.
“Nutrient-rich” water for the plants, indeed.