Even though the first draft for a 10-year program for aquaculture in the United States will be subject to lengthy discussion, the intentions are clear on a plan for grand-scale investment, from President Bush down through the ranks in the political and administrative system.

In the time until 2017, we will be witness to the United States establishing itself as a superpower in fish farming.

The United States has sovereignty over enormous stretches of sea and a massive coastal zone along both its east and west coasts, and it is odd the country has not progressed further in marine farming.

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