The Mediterranean is a region of contrasts. In countries such as Spain and Israel, tourist-trade property developers and their unlikely bed partners, environmentalists, are either forcing fish farms to relocate or preventing any further growth. In other countries, such as Turkey, expansion seems to be on the menu for seabass and seabream farms. But the question that many producers are beginning to nervously ask is: Will the market be able to withstand this almost unchecked growth of seabass and seabream? To start this month's Med feature, we report on one farmer hoping to avoid this cycle of boom and bust by heading into uncharted waters to farm new species.