diego, scalability is the goal as researchers work to build the first open-ocean fish farm in the unitedtates. [film advance clicking] man: in madagascar, we have more than 5,000 kilometers of coast, and a lot of fishermen communities. it's forbidden to fish sea cucumber with dive materials to preserve the species. but there are many foreign investors that came here that pay the young malagasy people to fish sea cucumber with a bottle of gas, etc. the chinese came here and, as usual, they tried to offer infrastructures like roads, and as a counterpart, they want to be authorized to exploit natural resources. there is a very huge upsurge of these practices now, and it's a big threat to the natural resources, to their sustainability, and the environment in general. [man speaking native language] io day: we believe that fish stocks are declining for multiple reasons, one of them being access to international markets. a lot of people in europe, a lot of people in asia enjoy to eat seafood which exists here. the population is growing in madagascar. there's lots of migration pressure as well. peopl

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