Living Ocean Productions has posted a new film “The Working Waterfront” — which aims to educate consumers about the current status of aquaculture in the United States — on YouTube.
The 25-minute video looks at four fish farms in different areas of the US. The farmers discuss several topics including the challenges to growing a robust US-based aquaculture community.
Over 90% of the seafood Americans eat is imported from overseas, and half of that amount is from aquaculture.
Lack of a consistent permitting processes and an outdated perception of aquaculture are cited as obstacles to increasing the supply of locally grown fish and seafood, the video’s producers said in a press release.
“There have been so many advances in biology and technology over the past two decades which have made aquaculture so much more sustainable than when it first started 40 years ago,” said Sebastian Belle, executive director of the Maine Aquaculture Association.
“There’s a real need to educate consumers that aquaculture today has less of an environmental impact of any other form of protein production… and that the resulting products are among the healthiest foods anyone can eat.”
The video was funded by the Soy Aquaculture Alliance and the United Soybean Board to educate the public about the advances made by US aquaculture.
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