Our planet is the same size as it was 60 million years ago, it's appearance has changes over the ages with bodies of water shifting, the ice caps dwindling over time, and the population of man is becoming larger by the hour. As this happens there are more and more mouths to feed therefore more space is needed to grow that food to keep every person, young and old, strong and healthy. It is becoming more evident that we as a global culture need to realize that from mistakes made in the past with over fishing/hunting/farming that we are now approaching a tipping point of sustainability and a possible collapse of some species of fish that will vanish from our oceans for good.
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| Current Fish Farm Layout. |
New ways of growing and producing the nutrients needed to survive that work in harmony with the wild population and the environment they share are starting to surface, forgive the pun I couldn't resist! Recently a good friend of mine posted a link about a company by the name of Open Blue, this company is apart of a world wide fish farming industry, it is however unique in a way that they raises the fish. Rather than the currently adopted technique of having open net pens close to shore where in my personal opinion there is negative impact into the local ecological habitat that they are installed both from the waste created by the fish to the structures that are there to help maintain the pens.
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| Method Pioneered by Open Blue |
Open Blue utilize a spherical shape floating mid water in the open ocean, by mid water I mean that the pen is below surface a few feet. What I really like about this method is that, to me, the fish get a chance to live in a habitat more real than the pens constructed close to shore along with the tidal movement in open water is more dramatic then closer to shore so the pens have a greater chance of staying clean and preventing the chance of bacteria or disease wiping out the school of fish and having the farmer start from scratch, like when a produce farmer gets over run by aphids both equally devastating. Now this isn't a fly by night company the founder and current president by the name of Brian O'Hanlon (P.S. it's St. Patrick's day as I'm writing this, so happy green beer day mate!) and from some of the literature I have been reading about this company is that Brian is a 3rd generation fish farmer and from what I can see he listened to his father and grandfathers when it came to creating a business and keeping it sustainable.
I don't want this post to come off as if Brian and his company Open Blue are the cats meow and I am not a biologist or heavily involved in the fish farming industry either. I do however have an opinion on sustainable businesses and truly enjoy seeing the ideas of our new age thinkers come to life and make a positive impact on the world and the way we live, it's people like Brian and his team that I applaud for their hard work and wish them all the best, if you are reading this and are as interested and passionate as I am then I encourage you to keep an eye on this guy and companies of the like. Support them like you would support your local farmer because with out either of them our tables would be pretty bare.
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