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Question about intensive aquaculture (tilapia)



I have an inquiry about intensive aquaculture from a nearby village.
Someone is proposing to put in a large (eventually over 1,000,000 pounds of
tilapia per year) inside the village.  I am told that there about 15 of
these in the country (North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts are
states that have been mentioned as having them).

Does anyone have any experience with such an operation?  What are the
environmental and social implications of such an enterprise?  
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Gil Gillespie                                                voice: 607-255-1675
Department of Rural Sociology  (&     fax: 607-254-2896
Division of Nutritional Sciences )         e-mail: gwg2@cornell.edu
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Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-7801
USA

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the end of the road only if we fail to negotiate the turn.
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