{"id":2922,"date":"2008-07-14T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2008-07-14T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T20:15:33","slug":"carlsbad-aquafarm-bets-on-abalone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Aquafarm Bets on Abalone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/aquafarm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/aquafarm.jpg','popup','width=350,height=232,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/aquafarm-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Aquafarm\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve always thought of them as pelican perches, but those floats in the Agua Hedionda lagoon are actually part of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadaquafarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Aquafarm&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> growing &#8220;multimillion-dollar&#8221; investment which now include abalone tanks, according to recent <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hbEY2BbrvVCli49swRidejsBLBRAD91S8KT80\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong> story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a process that has taken years to complete, microscopic abalone larvae have finally grown into fist-sized mollusks that can fetch $30 a pound from top-shelf restaurants and other buyers.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s very slow, growing abalone. You spend two or three years of work until you have something large enough to sell,&#8221; said <strong>Matt Steinke<\/strong>, a manager at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadaquafarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Aquafarm<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re glad to know the business is working. And if <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchlaundry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The French Laundry<\/a><\/strong> is cooking them, they must be good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hbEY2BbrvVCli49swRidejsBLBRAD91S8KT80\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve always thought of them as pelican perches, but those floats in the Agua Hedionda lagoon are actually part of Carlsbad Aquafarm&#8217;s growing &#8220;multimillion-dollar&#8221; investment which now include abalone tanks, according to recent Associated Press story. In a process that has taken years to complete, microscopic abalone larvae have finally grown into fist-sized mollusks that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}