Food production is facing challenges that require new, more creative and sustainable solutions. Companies involved in various segments of the industry, including agriculture and fishing, are looking at revolutionising the current systems, which have left bodies of water overfished and land in terrible condition.
On Long Island in New York, locals are tackling overfishing by using a new system that brings industries together. Fishermen and scientists have collaborated to realise and improve 3D farming.
3D ocean farming is a system that grows a mix of seaweed crops and shellfish – including mussels and oysters – under the water’s surface. This polyculture vertical farming system requires zero input because the sea plants filter and sequester carbon, making it, at this moment, the most sustainable means of food production on the planet.
“Imagine an underwater garden where you’re using the entire water column which means we have very small footprints,” tells ocean farmer Bren Smith.
Additionally, this system also sequesters carbon and rebuilds the reef’s ecosystem. The crops and shellfish grown underwater can be used as food, fertiliser, animal feed and even energy. In this way, climate change can be tackled while producing food, i.e. the food itself is the water filter.
“[mussels are] really lean proteins packed full of omega 3s, but also soak up and use nitrogen to grow… this farm filters millions of gallons of water a week and oysters filter up to 50 gallons a day,” Smith says.
“We have to tell a story, a helpful story about the future. You know, it’s all bad news about climate change and food security. I think out here we can say our oceans are a blank slate and we really have a chance to really build something new, and build something from the bottom up that’s sustainable and restorative and doesn’t make all the mistakes of industrial agriculture or aquaculture,” Smith explains.
Technological advances in the agricultural sector are set to revolutionize how crops are produced and harvested. These innovative methods are aimed at dramatically increasing the yield per acre so that even small farmers can reap the benefits of modern innovation in agriculture. By optimizing the conditions in which crops are grown there is less wastage, higher yield and greater rewards to the farmer at the end of the day.
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SOILENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!
or you know focus on the cause of the problem, Animal agriculture waste run offs.
Respect! Well-thought out project, nice to see that some people are not just thinking of themselves and fast profit, but of the general interest and future instead. This and similar sustainability and environmental projects should be mainstream not tomorrow, but today. Well done!
How would land area be delegated in the ocean?
I don't hear the speech, only loud music.
3:12 ahoy!
…oh ahoy… Under breath wierdo…
I always see documentaries and social movments uselss, people who can change reality for better are the same that are changing for bad, the exemple of that its people like Elon Musk, we need more people thinking in how solve this problem, not making laws to prevent those things to heppend…
Why are we not funding this?? Oh wait . People want a wall . Smh
All lies coexist oil that cancerous get retained in all life matter and sea plants along with fertilizer etc.etc you that fuckn stupid you whites are the father of all lies you whites eat it
i'd buy it 200%
use phi
2000 BC Asia: hm kelp taste good
2010 AD Western World: THIS NEW FOOD TREND CALED KELP
haha gtfo! we dont need more food! we need LESS PEOPLE!! the future is WAR!!!
I love this
i love seaweed salad at my local sushi bar.
Excellent Work,
Now what we need are 3D printers to print 3D Fish.
The volume that this farmed kelp does nothing for sequestering carbon to fight "climate change". Yes his halo effect does help the immediate area around it, but I highly doubt that humans would have use for enough kelp to farm it and change planet wide environmental issues they are complaining about. The earth will heel itself if we reduce the volume of pollution humans have put into the ocean.
ISIS, Boko Haram does not approve! How will they go boom under water and get their 72 virgins? Not to menion the thousands of tons of Fukushima radiated water poured to the sea? What if these terrorists turn into zambies! Invasion of the zombie mutant terrorists?
Problem is that sealife filters all the pollution from the sea.. and if you then eat it, its a problem. Fish etc. are basically already something you should avoid.
Kelps problem is its high iodine content, so you can eat it only in really small quantities.
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Nice ECN….