Aqua Framing: Food From A Sustainable Sea

by The Editors on November 6, 2009

Mussels OystersCarlsbadistan’s Carlsbad Aquafarm got some we-deserved play yesterday in a fish farming story on San Diego News Network.

“It’s very much hands-on science,” adds Peterson, who spends countless hours trying to mimic conditions for optimal species growth and spawning, from testing water and its food levels to monitoring weather temperatures. . . And if you ask Peterson’s colleague, Matt Steinke, who works on the engineering side of things, the sustainability factor is huge. “If you’re eating aquacultured shellfish, you are supporting an industry that is so sustainable it will feed your great-grandchildren. Every pound of aquacultured product is a pound that is not coming out of over-burdened and collapsing wild supplies.”

For more on the Agua Hedionda Lagoon business follow the link.

[Link: San Diego News Network]

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