In considering the future of aquaculture the work of Pål Lader from SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (Norway) is a must read.
In an article entitled 2020: An Aquaculture Odyssey in Gemini Magazine Pål sketches out what the future of the aquaculture industry could look like.
Free-range farmed fish. Sea cages that sail off and deliver their fish by themselves. Large autonomous fish farms that float unmoored in the sea. This could be the aquaculture of the future, the article states in a well argued scenario of what the future could look like.
When not casting his mind forward to design the aquaculture systems of the future Pål is a researcher for Norwegian Science Agency SINTEF with expertise in understanding the load bearing capacity of various types of aquaculture structures.