Farms: Deep Sea Fish Farming in Geodesic Domes: Upgrade
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In this episode of Upgrade, Motherboard goes to Baja California, Mexico to get a firsthand look at these free floating pods, and to get an understanding for why we need better ways to cultivate our future food sources. Whether it’s found on a plate of sushi, grilled in our backyard, or thrown on pasta, seafood is a staple for many diets around the world, and demand is growing. And as the commercial seafood industry booms, fish stocks worldwide face perilous declines. We’ve surpassed our capacity to sustainably fish wild caught fish, shrimp, and mollusks from the ocean, and so we’ve turned to aquaculture, or fish farming, as a strategy to meet demand for our growing appetites for water-borne critters. The aquaculture industry is growing fast. According to the FAO, per capita production of seafood from aquaculture has increased 6.9 percent annually since 1970. Unfortunately for us and for our Earth, current methods of fish farming often involve crowded, tethered pens, which can have poor water circulation and contribute to the spread of disease, and put large amounts of environmental stress on the surrounding waterways. This is where Steve Page of Ocean Farm Technologies comes in. Taking inspiration from naturally-occurring schools of fish and Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, Page co-designed the Aquapod, a free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat which reduces overcrowding, and creates less stress on surrounding environments due to its unique ability to change location with the ocean's current. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv
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I've never seen a geodesic dome; the dome looks really cool.
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solution is simple stop eating fish every one be vegetarian
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Why can't we just see that producing animal protein is an intensive process and abandon it? It's unnecessary...
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Fun fact: Totoaba, the fish being grown in the pod in this doc, have wild stocks that are extremely pressured, almost endangered. Their swim bladders go for a huge price in China.
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It would be cool to grow fish but also dive and study fish as well
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how do you feed the fish are there any automated system ?
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we need more people like steve ....
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once you see this you'll never eat tilapia ..they use them to clean the pens..they're shit eaters
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STOP GLOBALISATION! Nationalism has to be implemented everywhere! How in the world can exporting meat to China while importing meat from other countries still be cheaper than just selling it right away? Globalization destroyed our nature and is responsible for climate change and pollution!
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great documenteary! :-) :-)
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This guy is a goddamned genius...
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you know i Will eat all the fish in the sea 😊
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what do you mean the fish will be affected by drugs? @motherboard at 4:18
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That guy has a great vision. Hopefully it will be good for all.
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this and algae will save the word
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instead of taking already existing fish, lets make new fish. Awesome.
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The open ocean 3D geometric dome was really interesting.
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This is easy money
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There's should be law that oblige farm to be "eco" friendly. The fish of this company are probably more expensive so it's not fair . Or the government should pay the difference to compensate their involvment
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very good idea for future. ocean farm