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[skitahoe]

The artificial upwelling was something I came up with while taking a junior college level oceanography course just for the fun of it. The instructor thought the idea had merit when we discussed it. I've never taken it further than that, but I would be happy to if someone knew someone in the field that might be interested.

I frankly don't know if one artificial upweller could provide nutrients to many square miles, or just a few acres, but I suspect that if we're constantly bringing nutrients to the surface they'd spread out nicely. I believe that in the class we were told that something like 70% of the worlds oceans were void of life at the surface, where there is life there is natural upwelling. Plankton, kelp, etc. provide a substantial portion of the free oxygen in the world and eliminate a lot of carbon dioxide while doing so.

I believe that there are all sorts of plans for dealing with CO2, but this would be a far more natural plan for dealing with it. In additions to having the oceans doing the work, it would permit far more fish to grow as they'd have the plankton and or kelp to feed upon, so we'd have more food as well.

By the way, I saw a story on a company that was developing vertical kelp farms where they were constantly growing and harvesting kelp. If the two of these ideas were combined the kelp could be grown in places where nothing grows now. Introduce a specific species of fish and you could probably successfully farm that fish in just that area and probably not have to deal with other species as long as nutrients didn't spread to another such area. Many fish species feed on plankton and kelp, other species feed on smaller fish.

It has probably been about 55 years since I certified in scuba. We did a boat dive at Santa Barbara Island and found ourselves in massive schools of groupers in the morning, it was delightful swimming with these gentle giants. We were certified after the morning dive and some had spearguns which we couldn't carry in the morning, all those groupers knew it as all had disappeared. I never really got into spearing fish, abalone on the other hand were wonderful. That's an animal we should develop means of farming, we've fished out most that occur naturally, the rest are more expensive the best meat you can buy.

Gary