Feeding the World with Deep-Sea Fish
Farms
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Chris Arnold
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A school of fish raised in a deep-sea Kona Blue fish farm off the coast of Hawaii.
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Find Out How Kona Blue's Open-Ocean Fish Farms Operate
Video courtesy Kona Blue/ Big Island Television
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Morning Edition
, March 21, 2006 · The world's ever-growing population is eating more
and more fish and the oceans can't keep up. Fishing has depleted wild stocks of tuna,
swordfish, cod and many other species.
Some scientists say the answer is a massive growth of fish farming -- a so-called "blue
revolution" to help feed the planet. So far, fish farming has occurred on land or in
protected harbors. But some see a future with large-scale off-shore fish farms in waters
hundreds or thousands of feet deep.
One of the first companies venturing off-shore is Hawaii-based Kona Blue. It is raising
fish in giant, netted cages off the coast of Hawaii, submerged in waters some 200 feet
deep. Some scientists say that farming in such deep waters can avoid environmental
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concerns raised by fish farms close to shore. If you get too many caged fish in a harbor,
the fecal matter will pollute it. But offshore at the Kona Blue site, powerful ocean
currents constantly flush so much water through the farm that Kona Blue reports it can't
detect any change in nutrient levels up-current versus down-current of the farm.

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