Posted on 05/14/2004 7:59:38 AM PDT by ckilmer
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The oceans of the world are being overfished. The solution: roaming robots that bring fish farming to the open seas.
About 9 miles southeast of New Hampshire, near the Isles of Shoals, what seems to be an ordinary yellow navigation buoy sways in the Atlantic chop. Like a regular buoy, it's a metal cylinder that extends 10 feet above the surface and blinks its lights to warn away passing ships. Unlike a regular buoy, though, it has an access hatch that leads to an inner chamber crammed with enough electronics to merit its own IT staff. Indeed, this may be the first buoy in history that had its launch delayed by a software glitch.
(Excerpt) Read more at wired.com ...
Way cool fish tech.
question: if the oceans are being depleted of animal life, are their levels of oxygenation rising?
I don't know how that would work. The article isn't clear about that. If they used land based food then that would be a cost of doing business. The salmon in the sounds of British Columbia are fed land based food. They make a mess of the water and breed paracites because of their confinement. The open seas would prevent the fouling of the water but their confinement would prevent them from foraging like free ranging cattle.
I'd be hard pressed to believe that fewer fish would result in higher oxygen levels--because the oceans are so big.
hey, if the demand is reduced, the supply should go up.
OR
there should be other macrobiological indicators and effects
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