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How might we keep the lights on, water flowing, and natural world vaguely intact? It starts with grabbing innovative ideas/examples to help kick down our limits and inspire a more sustainable world. We implement with rigorous science backed by hard data.
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Seafood entrepreneur: Lobster traceability company aims to empower consumers

Seafood entrepreneur: Lobster traceability company aims to empower consumers | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
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PIRatE Lab's curator insight, May 30, 2016 11:48 AM
Traceability and authentication must be at the heart of any sustainable seafood endeavor.
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California Coastal Commission approves aquaculture facility off Long Beach shore

The California Coastal Commission on Wednesday approved the state’s first aquaculture farm to be located in federal waters about eight miles offshore of Long Beach.Known as Catalina Sea Ranch,
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This effort offers the opoprtunity to supply shellfish to local So Cal markets with markedly reduced carbon footprints.

PIRatE Lab's curator insight, January 11, 2014 11:27 AM

Our first mariculture facility in federal waters off of the California coast.  Cool beans!

 

While the cltivation of non-native species is normally a red flag, in this case the cat is long, long out of the bag across the entire west coast.  As such, this was a non-issue.

 

While California has lots of good intentions with our strong environmental laws, they have in many instances acted to quash innovation and coastal-dependent industries (this is why, for example, we have no offshore alternative energy production...even though we design and create systems that get installed in Oregon, Mexico, etc.).