Fish Farm Planned in Waters Off Mission Beach

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published March 18, 2009 at 4:39 AM PDT

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

Plans are being developed to create a fish farm in the ocean, five miles off of Mission Beach.Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute scientist Don Kent will lay out the details and goals of the plan at a

Plans are being developed to create a fish farm in the ocean, five miles off of Mission Beach.

Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute scientist Don Kent will lay out the details and goals of the plan at a San Diego Surfrider Foundation meeting tonight.

Surfrider's Scott Harrison says the organization has not taken a formal stand on the proposal.

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He says the presentation is an opportunity for people to ask questions about the project.

"Fish farming, aquaculture, mariculture can be a real problem for the environment and we'd like to have all stakeholders have a say in the process," Harrison said.

Hubbs scientist Kent leads the Institute's Offshore Aquaculture Program.

The Hubbs Institute developed and manages the white sea bass hatchery in Carlsbad's Agua Hedionda lagoon.

The hatchery was created to compensate for fish loss caused by operations of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

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The meeting starts at seven p.m. Wednesday at Forum Hall in La Jolla.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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