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[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by TheFaithfulStone

Seriously, why don't we do this?

Take a big section of the ocean - "fence" it off and raise fish in it?

Works for everything else we eat on a massive industrialized scale.

TFS

They are doing this is the cool, clean waters off Tasmania
It can get a bit of weather so damage can occur and the seals love the farms!

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A Marine National Park near here, made about 25 years ago, has about 100 times more fish than adjacent waters according to a local scuba diver.