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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">seafood:&nbsp;</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>] by Bren Smith, founder@ThimbleIslandOceanFarm - The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-the-frontlines-of-the-blue-green-economic-revolution-d5ae171285a3#.y3jo1jtsu" target="_blank">https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-the-frontlines-of-the-blue-green-economic-revolution-d5ae171285a3#.y3jo1jtsu</a></li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>] 2016-04-02</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>]&nbsp;a story of ecological redemption.&nbsp;</strong></li> <li>] The trouble was I was working at <strong>the height of the industrialization of food</strong>. We were <strong>tearing up entire ecosystems with our trawls,</strong>chasing fish further and further out to sea into illegal waters. I personally have thrown tens of thousands of pounds of by-catch back into the sea.</li> <li>]&nbsp;<strong>Most of my fish was going to McDonald&rsquo;s for their fish sandwiches.</strong> There I was, still a kid, working one of the most unsustainable forms of food production on the planet, producing some of the <strong>most unhealthy food on the planet.&nbsp;</strong></li> <li>]&nbsp;But God how <strong>I loved that job</strong>! The humility of being in 40-foot seas, the sense of solidarity that comes with being in the belly of a boat with 13 other people working 30-hour shifts, and a sense of meaning and <strong>pride in helping to feed my country.</strong> I miss those days so, so much.</li> <li>]&nbsp;At that point <strong>aquaculture</strong> was supposed to be the great solution to overfishing, but when I got there I found more of the same, only using new technologies to pollute local waterways with pesticides and pumping fish full of antibiotics. We used to say that what we were growing was neither fish nor food. We were running the equivalent of Iowa pig farms at sea.</li> <li>]&nbsp;Long Island Sound had a program to attract young fishermen back into the industry by opening up shell-fishing grounds for the first time in 150 years. I signed up, leased some grounds from the state of New York, and re-made myself as an <strong>oysterman</strong>. I did this for seven years. Then the storms hit. Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Sandy thrashed the East Coast. Two years in a row the storms buried 90 percent of my crops in three feet of mud, and 40 percent of my gear was washed away in a sea of death.&nbsp;</li> <li>]&nbsp;Suddenly I found myself on the front lines of a climate crisis that had arrived 100 years earlier than expected. For a long time I&rsquo;d seen climate change only as an environmental issue because environmentalists were always framing it in terms of birds, bears, and bees, but I&rsquo;m a fisherman.&nbsp;</li> <li>]&nbsp;I began experimenting and exploring new designs and new species. I lifted my farm off the sea bottom to avoid the impact of storm surges created by hurricanes and started to grow new mixes of restorative species. Now, after 29 years of working on the oceans, I&rsquo;ve remade myself as a <strong>3D ocean farmer,</strong> growing <strong>a mix of seaweeds and shellfish for food, fuel, fertilizer, and feed.</strong></li> <li>]&nbsp;My job has never been to save the seas; it&rsquo;s to figure out how the seas can save us.</li> <li>]&nbsp;Our 3D farms are designed to address three major challenges: First, to bring to the table a delicious new seafood plate in this era of overfishing and food insecurity; second, to transform fishermen into restorative ocean farmers; and third, to build the foundation for a new blue-green economy that doesn&rsquo;t recreate the injustices of the old industrial economy.</li> </ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>] SRC=hn(585)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410650" target="_blank">comments</a>(116)&nbsp;</li> <li>] VIDEO [06:00] -&nbsp;<a href="https://vimeo.com/100474262" target="_blank">how it works- overview</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>] SITE: <a href="http://greenwave.org" target="_blank">greenwave.org</a></li> </ol> <h2>[RELATED]</h2> <div><ol> <li>+] climate change</li> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol></div> <h1 style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</h1>