The world’s demand for a large supply of marine fish has put the marine ecosystems in danger due to overfishing. The solution to produce marine fish on the scale required by global demand is to practice mariculture in the open oceans, far away from the shores.

Mariculture is the cultivation of marine fish in the open ocean, for example farming of marine fish. Marine fish farming has important advantages because it diminishes the exploitation of wild stocks, supports the coastal industry and produces very healthy fish.

Founded in 2011 by Neil Sims and Michael Bullock, Kamachi Farms is working on producing open-ocean fish in an environmentally responsible manner. To do so they created the Velella Project, a free drifting oceanic fish cage that can be tracked by GPS and has minimal impact on the marine environment. This fish cage is a net pen structure made of brass, measuring 132 cubic feet. It drifts in the oceans at about 3 miles deep with no impact to wild stocks. It’s the Kamachi Farms solution to producing thousands of pounds of marine fish such as tuna, grouper and kamachi in clean ocean water without hurting the environment.

 
By Andrew Krauss

Source: Inventright