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Posted on 12/09/2007 11:50:03 AM PST by JACKRUSSELL
It's being hailed as the solution to America's dependence on imported seafood: industrial-scale fish farms in the open ocean, capable of putting red snapper and grouper on every dinner table in the country.
Still a fledgling industry in the United States, and globally, deepwater marine farming brings small fish born in laboratories to immense underwater cages in the ocean. There they are fed, grown to a marketable size, harvested and brought back to shore for sale.
After more than a decade of research, though, only a handful of operations exist in the United States, largely because of no traction in Congress. But as the nation's hunger for seafood swells and wild fish stocks continue to decline, the federal government could allow the Gulf of Mexico to be the nation's proving ground for offshore aquaculture......
......But with the United States importing 80 percent of the seafood it consumes, the pressure is coming from high levels of government to find alternatives......
......Though haute restaurateurs pride themselves on serving pompano and snapper just snagged from the Gulf, in reality much of the seafood in American households was likely farm-raised. By 2015, the United Nations expects half of all seafood consumed worldwide to come from farms. For farm-raised production, the United States has bucked that trend, accounting for 1 percent of farmed seafood worldwide. The vast majority -- 70 percent -- comes from China......
......The few offshore aquaculture facilities in the United States are at a university facility off the rocky coast of New Hampshire, two companies in Hawaii and a company off the coast of Puerto Rico.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Large scale saltwater aquaculture has a great appeal, much like wind power farms. Unfortunately, the Environmental left in this country will do everything in their power to obstruct and prevent it’s proliferation, by whatever inane reasons they can concoct.
Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
How long have you been maintaining a made in the china ping list?
Congress? What does congress have to do with fish farming. No, I didn't read the whole article, it sounded too much like the author wants congress (taxpayers) to do something.
I’ve seen the fish farms In Chin, from Beijing to Tianjin.
Green Pea Soup.
I would never buy it.
I don’t see this being feasable for all fish species. For instance, I would guess shrimp could be farmed very easily, and tuna would be darn near impossible.
Some domestic fish farms aren’t too keen either. Mucho anti-biotic used to stave off infections while the little buggers grow up in their stressed environment.
How would you know?
Congress has been notably inactive on passing COOL (Country Of Origin Labeling) legislation.
As far as our 'betters' are concerned, the American peons people have no right to know where their food comes from.
Shrimp farming has been done in the Americas for at least 500 years.
An yes, Pelagic farming would be impossible.
Brooklyn College professor with tanks in his basement becomes advocate of urban fish farming
NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2006 By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press Writer (AP)
(AP) In the basement of an ivy-covered building on the surprisingly leafy campus of Brooklyn College is something even more surprising: thousands of tilapia packed tighter than a subway car into 300-gallon fiberglass fish tanks.
Overseeing this watery domain is professor emeritus Martin Schreibman, director of the college's Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center.
A mild-tasting fish that was unfamiliar here a few years ago, tilapia is increasingly available in the United States, almost all of it farmed and imported from China and Central and South America. Schreibman hopes to change that. He believes that urban aquaculture _ raising fish in big tanks in places like Brooklyn _ could be the solution to the overfishing of wild populations and provide Americans with jobs and healthy food.
"We're subsidizing everybody in the world to grow fish that we can buy back from them," he said. "It doesn't make any sense to me. We should be creating jobs here."
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Yes, I've been breathlessly awaiting Cap'n Teddies Flounder and Mother Nancy's Perch.
Thank you! I knew there was a great joke in there somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
I started it on September 1, 2007.
;^)
Still working on Pelosi...
AMEN
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