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Wed Jun 25, 2025, 08:48 PM Jun 25

In the Arizona desert, a farm raising fish raises questions about water use

DATELAND, Ariz. (AP) — Storks scatter, white against blue water, as Dan Mohring’s pickup truck rumbles down the dirt road. He’s towing a trailer full of ground-up beef, chicken, fish and nutrient bits behind him, ready to be shot out of a cannon into the ponds below.

It’s time to feed the fish.

Mohring fires up the machine and the food flies out in a rainbow arc. Then the water comes alive. Hundreds of thrashing, gobbling barramundi wiggle their way to the surface, all fighting for a piece. Until, in a few months, they will become food themselves.

In the desert of landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, Mainstream Aquaculture has a fish farm where it’s growing the tropical species barramundi, also known as Asian sea bass, for American restaurants.

https://apnews.com/article/arizona-colorado-river-fish-farms-water-desert-5d2ef591ae967756f4d7476cbd633c8e

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In the Arizona desert, a farm raising fish raises questions about water use (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 25 OP
"The farm uses groundwater" /nt progree Jun 26 #1
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