Baltimore, MD (June 13, 2016)

Dr. Yonathan Zohar, Professor at IMET and Chair of the Department of Marine Biotechnology at UMBC, was recently featured in article by The Economist on the future of aquaculture.

Dr. Zohar’s land-based marine aquaculture system is completely self-contained, and it could dramatically change how millions of people access fish as a local food source. Localized systems reduce transportation costs and energy usage, and the system includes several core features to maximize sustainability.

Baltimore-area restaurants have already partaken in some of the locally grown fish from Dr. Zohar’s Aquaculture Research Center. “If he succeeds,” Carr writes, “…sushi lovers around the world will be forever in his debt.”

Read the full story on The Economist here.