New Fish Farms Move from Ocean to Warehouse
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
At the University of Maryland’s Center for Marine Biotechnology, Stubblefield and his fellow researchers are not only altering nature, they are creating what may be the next generation of seafood.
The experiment uses city-supplied water and a complex microbial filtration system to raise a few hundred fish completely indoors. Yonathan Zohar, the center’s director and the study’s leader, said it is the first indoor marine aquaculture system that can re-circulate nearly all of its water and expel zero waste. “I’m a strong believer that in 20 years from now, most seafood will be grown on land,” Zohar said. “It can go to the Midwest, it can go into the inner city, it can go wherever.”
If Zohar’s team proves the system could become economically competitive with current marine fish farming techniques, Zohar says he may have found a sustainable answer to the world’s growing fishery crisis.
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