Mobile fish farms could soon navigate the oceans
Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14663?DCMP=youtube A new self-propelled cage could allow fish farms to roam the oceans.
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The currents move the tanks. They only use the propellors when they get off course
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The daily faecal matter of one passing whale is a thousand times greater than anything those fish can produce. If they kept it in one spot long enough a host of life forms will appear to feast on the plankton and micro life that is feeding on the fish poo
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@420floridaboy if one person poops in the woods its ok, 2, 3 peaple also ok 48,000 pooping in the same spot it kills whatever is there causes disease and smells horrible. same concept if a cage is kept in one area you kill it and cause much parasites and disease
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@crash0510 doing it robotically, reduces risks of human life lost in accidents at sea. It's also cost effective because you can do it remotely and thus not have financial costs of boats and human crews. They can be also moved away from Storms ahead of time before a boat can actually reach it if there's a quick moving storm on the horizon.
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@GFS05np those fish are cobia
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@Lukemabob ya, you are over simplifying the facts
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@crash0510 Nope just you. The propellers give it control and allow it to use the current to its advantage not pulling against the boat.
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i think breeding roes (fish eggs) in a clean spacious environment and then setting them free in the open ocean is not a bad idea either. Because there is a concern for sanitation when it comes to fish farming in a small environment which can cause diseases. The propeller idea is not bad.
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must piss the sharks off , wave around unreachable food. those in a cage enjoy a postponed death date. lol. good idea. also look at urban fish filtered farm.
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why don't we let go of the need to farm fucking everything by trying to take into account the basic fact that we are not and never can be in control of the entire fecking planet and everything on it!
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population control is the answer
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the thrust is aligned with the mass, "retard" :)
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farm fish r bad
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Industrialize the oceans? seems to me that would pushing the envelope a little to far. There has to be a better way to feed the hungry.
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never i will not allow such things to exist!!!!1
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This is another remarkable step in the progress of deep open ocean aquacultural technology to provide our hngrry world with healthy seafood in a manner than does not damage our oceans nor their stakeholders. Brian O'Hanlon, CEO & Founder of Open Blue Sea Farms, worked with MIT and it was at his facility in Puerto Rico where the tests were conducted.
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its so other species dont become extinct
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whats wrong with just going out and catching your own fish? we have become so complex we dont have to lift a finger.
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wow :D
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technically... you'd have to narrow that down to species, because insects SURE AS HELL PWN us in terms of numbers, and they're "animals". and, erm, cockroaches and sharks longevity blah blah blah guess what i'm tryna say is, is "successful" defined by "ability to deliberately modify the earth to bring about maximum benefits for our own species"? because a more accurate description would actually be "longest period of existence"
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