Note
If large, open-ocean sea farms are developed in the near future, there undoubtedly will be many biological, technical, social, and political issues that will need to be resolved. But it is hard to imagine that such farms would not be conceived and developed without also incorporating the aquaculture of other organism, particularly fish. The sooner the mariculture community learns to optimize the efficiency of its overall operation at the relatively small scale that exists today, by cultivating animals side by side in the same system, the sooner the large ocean farms of tomorrow will become a reality.