Is aquaculture the “silver bullet” for future sources of food?
A lot of people recognize that we’ve got limitations in terms of land on which to farm. We’ve got exploding populations that are looking for future sources of food and they see the oceans as the magic bullet, the place where we’re suddenly going to have opportunities to harvest limitless amounts of protein. My response to that is that it is true that agriculture is what created the big revolution in human evolution. We’ve now had ten to twelve thousand years to experiment with agriculture, to develop techniques, and we’re still doing stupid things like spraying toxic chemicals all over the land, into the water, into the air and we think that this is proper industrial agriculture. But the oceans represent a vast area. Yes there is opportunity there but a vast area about which we are virtually ignorant. We are terrestrial, air breathing land lovers. The ocean is a complete mystery to us. The oceans cover seventy percent of the planet. We have no idea what is down there, let alone how thi
