Blue Ridge Aquaculture tilapia featured in this month's National Geographic
SEAFOODNEWS.COM May 28,2014
Blue Ridge Aquaculture, based at the Martinsville (Virginia) Industrial Park, is featured in a story in the June issue of National Geographic called “How to Farm a Better Fish.” The piece is part of an eight-month series on food security and sustainability.
The story focuses on aquaculture — the growth of aquatic animals and plants for food — as the future of the seafood industry. It includes interviews with more than half a dozen people, including a fish geneticist in Shanghai, a company president in Panama, and Blue Ridge Aquaculture President Bill Martin.
Blue Ridge currently ships about 11,500 pounds of live tilapia up the East Coast each day, said Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jim Franklin.
“It is outstanding exposure...
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