Developer Wants to Build 400,000 Sq. Ft Hamachi Farm in Moss Landging Near Monterey Bay
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Monterey County Weekly] by David Schmalz - January 14, 2016
If Los Angeles-based developer Mark Pender’s plans come to fruition, sushi-grade yellowtail will soon become Moss Landing’s most valuable fish. But they won’t be landing at the harbor, they’ll be hatched and raised at the one of the biggest land-based fish farms in the world.
The proposed project, Monterey Bluewater Farms, has been in pre-development for the last three years, and renderings of its build-out resemble something out of Silicon Valley: a 400,000-square-foot campus dotted with modern buildings and giant grow tanks covered with rows of solar panels. There’s a cafe, an outdoor classroom and aquarium-like viewing areas.
And Pender, who’s helped develop smaller fish farms across the world, says the technology has arrived to make the operation eco-friendly in that there will be no discharge into the ocean. The region’s reputation for sustainable seafood, he adds, is a primary reason he wants to build the farm there.
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