cycle. it begins with food stock. we spawn fish in captivity in a controlled environment. we hatch the eggs, cultivate live feed in order to feed the baby fish for the first 30 days of their life. what you re seeing here is the nursery section of open blue. you re looking at about 150,000 koeb yeah here between four tanks and they re 25 days old. and they re close to one gram on average right now. my name is stan and i m the hatchery manager for open blue farm. basically after three and a half weeks in the hatchery, the fish are transferred here and will spend about the next six weeks being grown to an appropriate size where we can then transfer them to the cages offshore. my goal and i think our goal here has been to create aqua culture in a more sustainable setting. when you talk about