La Jolla Town Council hears concerns about fish farm proposed off the local coast
The Pacific Ocean AquaFarms project would encompass 719 acres off the coast of Bird Rock and Mission Beach.
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Feb. 13, 2021 12 PM PT
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Opponents of an immense fish farm proposed off the coast of Bird Rock and Mission Beach let members of the La Jolla Town Council know how they feel Feb. 11 as the project is undergoing environmental review.
The Pacific Ocean AquaFarms project, spearheaded by the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute and Long Beach-based investment group Pacific6 Enterprises, would produce up to 5,000 metric tons of yellowtail fish annually in federal waters about four miles offshore.
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The underwater chorus of killer whales or dolphins could contain secret military messages hidden in plain sound. Chinese researchers have recently published a series of studies describing how to disguise underwater communications as artificial dolphin clicks and killer whale songs, potentially allowing stealthy submarines or underwater drones to cryptically pass covert military communications between each other or a home base.
Mimicking marine mammal sounds to disguise military communication is a decades-old idea that has resurfaced. During the Cold War’s geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, the US military’s Project Combo tested using recordings of whale and dolphin songs as the basis for secret code that might go unnoticed by enemy eavesdroppers. But the Chinese researchers’ efforts seem to have gone a step beyond, by using modern technology to create artificial whale and dolphin sounds from scratch rather than relying on pr