Les Fruits de Mer
WHERE HAVE ALL THE SALMON GONE?
Nice picture, beautiful salmon. You may have heard that they are all gone and the farm was a total failure. That not quite true. The salmon depicted here was spawned from genetically disease free roe, smoltified on site and matured in ponds filled with nutrient rich, pure, cold, deep ocean water. This was accomplished by George Lockwood and was a great bio-technical feat. Did it cost a fortune and would it have been uneconomic in production? We really do not know, but deep ocean water is cheap, and the salmon just one product of a polyculture sub system in a multi-product system. Lockwood was only able to obtain financing to place in operation one four acre pond of a sixteen acre complex. He had already committed himself to the sixteen acre operation and it was nearly completed. The production from only four acres did not produce the income required to stay afloat until the sixteen acres could be productive. In the meantime fluctuations in the wild salmon market undercut the price of the farm product despite its superiority in taste and quality of flesh. While Lockwood was being overextended Jack Davidson was funding a development project with Dr. Arlo Fast for the spawning, smoltification and rearing of steelhead trout. The research product was one of the finest fish that Craven and Davidson have ever eaten and the combined experience of Lockwood and Fast tell CHC that there is a potential for salmonid farm production provided that it is supported by cost sharing subsystems.
CHC intends to re-examine the potential for rearing andronymous species. This will be carried out as CHC has carried out its past developments, within its resources (without borrowing) and with maximum utilization of natural energy processes. (For example we are contemplating a tower with stratified layers of fresh cool water overlaying a deep ocean layer of cold seawater.) Fish in such an environment should be capable of selecting that temperature salinity locale which best suits their needs in whatever stage of smoltifiction in which they find themselves. You can count on CHC to employ knowledgeable and imaginative techniques which are not possessed by 'run of the mill' research and development organizations. So be the first to sponsor a fish tank that really works and is productive. Behold you will be made a fisher of fishermen to convert them to be fish farmers of the deep ocean waters and all nations shall call you blessed. In any event you ought to find some way to help the common heritage of humanity. Keep reading this page and you may find a way. market.
Economies of scale stupid- sixteen acres were needed
Aha that's it, you only finished four acres. Why didn't you complete the sixteen.
The banks would only lend money for four.
Banks lend lots of money for useless projects. Why didn't they call the farm a convention center and get a developers loan?
From a Savings and Loan? Common Heritage Corp. has a better idea. We are going to buy pipes pumps and ponds at bankruptcy prices.
Won't that just repeat the cycle.
Of course not CHC doesn't borrow money at interest or make financial commitments without cash in hand.
How will that work?
It's simple. Get some friends and sponsor a CHC pipe, pump or pond. No interest for a few years but you can amortize the investment and then you'll have an environmentally sustainable gold mine for you, your children, your children's children and posterity.
Support the Common Heritage.
You too can blend your humanity with the new environmentally sustainable developments.
OR WALLOW IN THE SHALLOWS OF VIRTUAL OCEANIC REALITY
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