Visitors are required to wear a life jacket or wetsuit, you cannot feed the fish or submerge yourself beneath them, only three people (plus a guide) are allowed in the water at one time, and, no, you cannot catch a ride on their fin.
Founded in 2001 by two graduate students from the Colorado School of Mines, Oberon aims to address the fish-feed problem by serving farmed fish the bacteria used to eat up the excess food in wastewater streams of food-processing plants.
It releases a surge of warm water from the equator which kills off the plankton causing the fish which feed on them to die of starvation and driving the survivors south into Chilean waters.
Moreover, much of the flood-plain is actually forest, which provides a particularly nutritious array of rotting leaves for the fish to feed on.
Mr Byrne said islanders had donated hundreds of kilograms of fish in order to feed the seals back to health.
The latest is the overharvesting of menhaden, a small bony fish that's used in chicken feed and also happens to be the stripers' main meal.
So if you destroy the habitat in which these fish feed and breed then you're going to destroy sustainability of that fishery.
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Resistance from local fishermen slowly turned into support when they realized they could get steady work delivering feed and materials to the farm sites while transporting harvested fish back to shore on a scheduled basis.
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It seems that the use of (heavily subsidized) corn as a cheap universal feed for chickens, for cows, and even for fish, not to mention the corn products that seep into candy, soft drinks, cheese, and almost everything else, has made that particular package of starch nearly inescapable.
But the company has discovered that its algae can be processed into other useful things: feed for fish farms, protein powders for food supplements and omega-3 fatty acids used in a variety of supplements and pharma products.
Instead, the fishing industry processes them into fish meal and oil to make food pellets for salmon farming and livestock feed - especially for Danish pigs.
Take too many menhaden and you damage the populations of bluefish and striped bass that feed on them. (Not so, says the company.) At the moment Omega Protein is allowed to fish only in the waters off six states, and two of those have caps on its harvests.
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