Mightier Than the Pen?: Fish Farms On Land Are Future, Entrepreneur Says
Sunday Gazette-Mail › March 03, 2008
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Deep in the coalfields of Southern West Virginia, in tanks filled with pure, cold water from under a long-shuttered mine, Atlantic salmon swim.
They start as tiny pink eggs with two black dots for eyes. They surge from fry to fingerling to full-grown in less than a year in a carefully controlled, disease-free environment where antibiotics, hormones and other contaminants are nonexistent. They are trucked out live, ending up on dinner plates up and down the East Coast.See the full content of this document
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Mightier Than the Pen?: Fish Farms On Land Are Future, Entrepreneur Says
That, at least, is Bill Martin's vision.
Martin recently bought a West Virginia fish farm that once produced arctic char. After some upgrades, he'll use it to raise salmon and steelhead trout in low-salinity water hundreds of miles from either species' natural habitat.Martin knows how it sounds: Eighty perc...See the full content of this document
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