Some of the cages in which O'Hanlon's fish will grow will likely come from another Aquacopia-funded company, OceanFarm Technologies of Morrill, Maine, founded by Stephen Page, a former salmon farmer.
At the University of New Hampshire, Professor Hunt Howell and colleagues are experimenting with a "fish farm" in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Portsmouth.
Off the coast of Oregon, Ocean Power Technologies has received approval to begin work on the first commercial wave farm in the US. The project is expected to produce enough clean energy to power more than 1, 000 homes.