National Geographic News, Reporting Your World Daily

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Giant Robotic Cages to Roam Seas as Future Fish Farms?


Email to a Friend	<< Back to Full Story

A worker cleans an Aquapod fish cage off Peurto Rico in an undated photo. Another Aquapod has been outfitted with remote-control propellers.

Someday such automated cages could herald an entirely new form of fish farming, with robotic cages roaming the seas, mimicking the movements of wild schools.

Photograph courtesy Ocean Farm Technologies