Fishing News
Farmers Raise Fish, Shrimp in Desert
By Amanda Onion
Aug. 8 -- Samuel Appelbaum wants to help solve the world's water crisis, and he wants to do it by pulling fish from the desert.
A decade ago, the idea of raising fish in the desert might have been ridiculed, but 10 years of successful aquaculture in Israel and the Southwestern United States showed the idea can work.
Now Appelbaum and others are working to help the concept catch on in arid regions around the world as future water supplies are tapped dry.
"People thought we were lunatics at first," Appelbaum said while on a recent tour in New York City. "But we know there is a need and this can answer that need. Much of the world has arid land that is rich in sun and cheap labor -- for aquaculture you don't need much else to be successful."
Aquaculture may not need much, but water, of course, is necessary.
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