Can Our Oceans Feed the World? - Jerry W Webb - August 1971

Jerry W Webb

Man is now looking to the oceans to provide additional food for hungry millions. Will the plan work? Or will it threaten earth's "last re source"? By the year 2000, sea farmers in diving vessels assisted by remote control harvesters are to reap plants in ocean-bottom seaweed forests, some authorities tell us. Man-made islands resting on "sea legs," they tell us, will dot the oceans of the world to harvest the riches of the seas. The islands will provide stable harbors from which men will herd fish like cattle. People will sit in their submarine homes and gaze through picture windows at underwater meadows of algae on which herds of "sea cows" graze. Deep-sea ranchers using underwater tractors and submarines will reap harvests of giant seaweed beds and ride herd on grazing fish. Air bubbles rising from compressed-air hoses would corral the fattened fish. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library