{"id":5670,"date":"2009-06-14T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T18:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2009-06-14T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T18:56:27","slug":"sea-horsing-around-at-the-aqua-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5670","title":{"rendered":"Sea Horsing Around At The Aqua Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carlsbad lagoon is a working lagoon and <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/jun\/14\/lz1mc14harves235957-no-ordinary-harvest\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>Michael Burge<\/strong> checks in on one of the lesser known aspects of the aqua farming business: sea horse ranching.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI call it a living reef,\u201d said <strong>John Davis<\/strong>, Carlsbad Aquafarm&#8217;s owner. \u201cYou go out there, you come out of the water and you&#8217;re alive with things.\u201d . . Behind the aquafarm&#8217;s gates on the lagoon&#8217;s south shore are tanks where the shellfish grow from larvae to mature adults. The 18 employees also cultivate micro-and macroalgae as food, and brine shrimp, the oats for the sea horses. . . .Davis, a tall, silver-haired former Navy and airline pilot, said he began raising the sea horses about five years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, Davis sells sea horses to &#8220;<strong>Legoland&#8217;s Sea Life<\/strong> and <strong>Birch Aquarium<\/strong> at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and to wholesalers who sell them to private individuals.&#8221; Cowboy up!<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/jun\/14\/lz1mc14harves235957-no-ordinary-harvest\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carlsbad lagoon is a working lagoon and San Diego Union-Tribune writer Michael Burge checks in on one of the lesser known aspects of the aqua farming business: sea horse ranching. \u201cI call it a living reef,\u201d said John Davis, Carlsbad Aquafarm&#8217;s owner. \u201cYou go out there, you come out of the water and you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670"}],"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=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}