ALAN B. SIELEN

The United States NOAAA has done and/or sponsored most of the research and development that enabled modern aquaculture. However, foreign nations like Norway, Thailand and Chile have far surpassed the American fish farming operations and they are major exporters of sea food. In Alaska, state law has made fish farming a crime to supposedly protect the fishing industry, while the three nations just described have large fishing industries and see aquaculture as saving the fishing tradition and not ruining it. Mankind would be in great food difficulty if it had not been for agriculture replacing gathering, and animal husbandry replacing hunting for meat. Now fish is poised for that great change despite the recalcitrance of Alaska and some other places.

The United States NOAAA has done and/or sponsored most of the research and development that enabled modern aquaculture. However, foreign nations like Norway, Thailand and Chile have far surpassed the American fish farming operations and they are major exporters of sea food. In Alaska, state law has made fish farming a crime to supposedly protect the fishing industry, while the three nations just described have large fishing industries and see aquaculture as saving the fishing tradition and not ruining it. Mankind would be in great food difficulty if it had not been for agriculture replacing gathering, and animal husbandry replacing hunting for meat. Now fish is poised for that great change despite the recalcitrance of Alaska and some other places.