Normally associated with fighter jets and smart bombs, Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Solutions has deployed a new type of fish pen off Hawaii's Big Island's coast that could revolutionize aquaculture, reports KITV4.
The mobile fish pen has been deployed successfully off Kailua-Kona through a partnership with Kampachi Farms. Kampachi co-founder Neil Sims said ocean eddies located to the west of the Big Island provide near ideal conditions to test the Lockheed Martin fish pen.
In an earlier trial about 2,000 Kampachi fingerlings placed inside the mobile pen for the grew to four pounds in just four months and produced a product that some compare to bluefin tuna.
"The
