Which is a shame, because the U.S. has the largest federal water zone in the world, with more ocean area suitable for deep-water fish farming than the country has arable land area.

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Instead, Goudey and a handful of other schemers hope to relocate fish farming, or aquaculture, from sensitive and expensive coastal areas to the open ocean.

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Mera has invested money in causes dear to her heart: a marine fish farming group, a company that looks for cancer treatments in products from the ocean, and a maker of a fingerprinting system for newborns.

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