Aquaculture going mainstream
The Economist has a pretty measured article about aquaculture, its drawbacks and benefits. It is even a front page story this time. In China aquaculture […]
Fish farming
2002 – the year in review
OTEC – The most exciting work in OTEC probably goes on in India and on Hawaii. In India, the Sagar Shakti 1 MW OTEC barge […]
Non toxic fish for humans through mariculture
An interesting article in West Hawaii Today talks about growing kampachi (Mediterranean yellow tail fish) in tanks at NELHA. Prized as a sashimi fish, kampachi […]
OTEC based power for ocean nitrogen fertilisation
Engineering students from The University of Sydney have devised a scheme to produce reactive nitrogen for fertilization of the ocean from an OTEC plant. They […]
Serious pipe work
The Honolulu Star Bulletin has an article on the 55 inch pipleline [cached] that NEHLA has worked for the last twelve years to put in […]
Depleted Atlantic fish stocks
The Economist reports on research performed by academics at the University of British Columbia which shows in detail how the fish stocks of the Northern […]
Doubts about plankton as a carbon sink
New Scientist (16 January 2002) reports from the recent Ocean Sciences meeting in Hawaii about new computer simulations which Jorge Sarmiento and colleagues from Princeton […]
Grow shell fish within the shell of a boat
Wired News reports on an Abalone farming project in Australia. The idea being that it is easier to keep the required stable enclosed ocean environment […]
Patent on manure in your fields?
Interestingly enough it turns out that a Michael Markels of Springfield, Virginia, has US patents on artificially fertilising the ocean to increase sea food production […]
Natural upwelling zone between Seychelles and Mauritius
New Scientist reports briefly about the a natural upwelling zone which has been found between the Seychelles and Mauritius by the Shoals of Capricorn Programme. […]