SAN PEDRO, California, US — Don’t bother telling Phil Cruver, founder, president and CEO of the Catalina Sea Ranch (CSR), that he needs to be patient.
Nearly seven years after taking the initial steps necessary to build his 100-acre Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus Galloprovincialis) farm some six miles off the coast of Los Angeles, California — the only commercial aquaculture facility operating in US federal waters — he is ready to make it 30 times larger and further backup his trademarked claim of operating the “Aquaculture Capital of America”.
Now that the federal government shutdown is at least temporarily ended, CSR staff are working the telephones and will submit their application any day for a building permit to the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to expand to 3,000 acres and add at least three shellfish species: 900 acres more of mussels, 1,000 acres of giant kelp and 1,000 acres of other cage-culture shellfish, including oysters, rock scallops and abalone…
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