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Not that many people get to see them because they often inhabit those open ocean waters cl s clo shore. whale sharks are animals that kobe are often found schooling with. they will follow whale sharks in nature. that demonstrates that where they naturally thrive. i love to go inside and look up at the silhouette of the fish from behind. just a nice place to be.
>> how did you decide how far apart to put the farms? >> looking for consistency in the water. it kept pushing us farther and farther out. we want the fish to be in clean water all the time, at least 12 kilometers off the coast. very deep water here, about 220 feet deep. there's nothing between us and cuba. >> our whole goal is to provide a more natural, healthier environment for the fish. eight miles off the coast, clear blue water. currents are brisk. fish never see the same water twice. also moving them away, whether it's recreational nav gashal activities, moving the farms away, no coral r...
Cycle. it begins with food stock. we spawn fish in captivity in a controlled environment. we hatch the eggs, cultivate live feed in order to feed the baby fish for the first 30 days of their life. >> what you're seeing here is the nursery section of open blue. you're looking at about 150,000 koeb yeah here between four tanks and they're 25 days old. and they're close to one gram on average right now. my name is stan and i'm the hatchery manager for open blue farm. basically after three and a half weeks in the hatchery, the fish are transferred here and will spend about the next six weeks being...
>> over the next 50 years, we need more seafood than the last 10,000 years combined. we're already seeing fish on land, already seeing food shortages so we have to pick up the pace, move it offshore. >> ready for takeoff. >> can you tell us where we are right now? >> we're flying pretty much over the jungle here, which is covering a mountain chain. that is panama. panama is essentially this string of mountains that comes running down from as far north as north america. a pretty much untouched part of
Don't know for sure what you're getting. >> right. >> how do you address that problem because there's skepticism? >> one thing we're trying to do is provide full traceability with our products. we're currently tagging our fish. every fish that leaves has a unique tag with its own information on it. just like this, a little information on the product and a unique number here. if you go, the provision for this is one day you go to the website and punch in that number and pull up the life history of the product. >> so if your fish arrives in a fish market, somebody could pull out their device and...