West Hawaii Today has this item on a new venture regarding harvesting the seas. Excerpt:

The world’s largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, is teaming up with NELHA-based Kampachi Farms on a venture to make open-ocean aquaculture commercially viable.

Forever Oceans, as the venture’s termed, will take to the next level Kampachi Farms’ mobile fish pen system, known as Vellela, which recently wrapped up research and development, by enhancing the means for monitoring and controlling the at-sea apparatus and creating a commercial demonstration project, Kampachi Farms co-CEO Neil Sims tells West Hawaii Today.

“We’ve gone and done the research. We’ve proven there is tremendous and phenomenal potential, and now it’s time to move forward,” Sims said.

Kampachi Farms is a six-man outfit that uses open-ocean fish cages to raise fish reared at the company’s headquarters at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority in Kona. …

The newspaper adds that Lockheed Martin Chief Technology Officer Keoki Jackson says the venture can take advantage of  technology robotics, satellite communications and command and control — “things that are right in Lockheed Martin’s wheelhouse.”

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Kampachi Farms