Been thinking about seastead economies...

Syndicate replies to “Been thinking about seastead economies...” topic Mon, 07/28/2008 - 13:32 — Thorizan

And I remembered an ariticle in Wired several years ago...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/fish.html

It's four pages long, and a pretty good read, but basically, I talks about a Bluewater Revolution necessary to keep fish stocks available for the growing world population.  Huge underwater cages filled with growing fish floating through the oceans going from port to port.  One of the concerns is piracy, so if you slapped a few of these puppies under a seastead and motered it about around the Atlantic, in a year you dock back in port with mature fish from what was just fingerlings.  Companies could pay us, at first, to watch over the cages, then as you got more money, you could purchase cages of your own, and enter into long term contracts with fishmongers or, eventually, cut out the middle men and make more money.

It's a simple way to capitalize on the biggest resource seasteands would have available to them.

Thoughts?

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Mon, 07/28/2008 - 14:14 — Thorizan

Well... I have another one...

I was doing some more research on this and found some more information from OceanSpar.  I am seriously not being paid to advertise, but this looks like the beginnings of a really good idea for how the seastead could make some really decent money.

http://www.oceanspar.com/files/OceanSpar_SeaStation.pdf

These are still moored, but I think some help from the Atlantic Marine AquaCulture Center at the University of New Hampshire and their 20-ton automatica feeder for the Ocean Drifter could help things get going in the right direction.

Wed, 08/27/2008 - 23:08 — Patri

Yes, totally agreed

Of all the business models we've ever thought of, aquaculture is my second favorite, after a hotel/resort.  So I think very highly of it.  But in terms of advertising the movement, and having a place that is liveable and fun, I think "Vegas on the ocean with less rules" makes a better start than "A big fish farm" :).  But definitely, someday, seasteads will supply the world's fish needs.