Marine biologists at Hawaii's Kampachi Farms on Thursday reported a successful final harvest from the "Velella" Research Project, which raised fish for the first time in US federal waters.
This harvest completes the grow-out cycle of sashimi-grade kampachi fish from an unanchored drifter pen that has been riding eddies in the open ocean, three to 75 miles offshore of the Big Island of Hawaii, since last summer.
These were the first farmed fish raised in US federal waters and required a special research permit from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
