aquaculture

Just a quick note for you all this morning.  For starters if you are not familiar with Arthur Allen let's make one thing clear right off the bat-he is no hack. He has a track record of being fair and getting both sides and siding with ground truth science in his journalistic deliberations.

At the first sign of even minimal apprehension about the state of any fish stock many environmental extremists go right to the only page they know in the Henny Penny playbook and scream-collapse. Some, like Greenpeace, do it to raise money while others do it as a simple matter of routine-if there isn't a crisis they're not needed so let's announce a crisis and then work backwards from there.

The last few days I've had a look at the seafood chain from beginning to end.  On Thursday of last week I visited the Oceanic Institute (OI), a non-profit aquaculture research and development organization, just down the road on windward Oahu.  OI is an impressive place - the white shrimp they have been raising play such a big role in the seafood supply, odds are any shrimp you've gobbled up in the last decade or two is an OI descendant.  Here are the shrimp tanks (not a bad backdrop)...