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Nature 431, 502-504 (30 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/431502a; Published online 29 September 2004
Aquaculture: Fishing for trouble
Rex Dalton1
- Rex Dalton is Nature's US West Coast correspondent.
Abstract
Plans to push tuna farms out into open waters off the coast of the United States are raising an environmental alarm. Rex Dalton discovers the kind of problems these offshore ranches might cause.
In the blue waters off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, circular nets are buffeted by the teeming mass of tuna inside. Every day boats pull up to these ocean 'ranches' and workers toss sardines into the churning water, fattening their investments while keeping an eye out for predatory sea lions.
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