Growing offshore mariculture ‘an imperative’

By

Whit Richardson , SeafoodSource contributing editor

Published on
May 23, 2010

It’s not often that fish farming is equated with the cell phone, but that’s the analogy Neil Sims, president of Kona Blue Water Farms and the Ocean Stewards Institute, used to explain offshore mariculture’s potential in a recent webinar organized by SeafoodSource.

“At this stage we have to be focused on high value species because we’re still a developing technology,” said Sims, explaining why salmon and his company’s own Kona Kampachi are currently the norm in fish farms. “We are …

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