year, harvesting over a million fish this year. i have studied sort of open ocean farming of product, and from my way of thinking, that s really, of that exists, i want to see the pure newt reets of the ocean in areas of the ocean that are completely away from any kind of industry, nonpolluted. that s really seafood in its purest sense. if i can get that, that s what i want to sell to my customers. it s pure, it s healthier. it s got the right level of omega 3s, the right fat content. free of the harmful contaminants found around seafood, mercury, pe pesticides, we can prove it. we test the food, we run a test on every lot to insure the fish doesn t have contaminants. there s been a lot of news lately about the fact you order fish at restaurants and you order off the menu, but you
you never see the same water twice. i m brian, founding of open blue, the largest open fish market. welcome to the next list with dr. sanjay gupta. every year, the world s population grows. with it, a need for more food. seafood in particular is in demand because it s such high quality protein, but the number of fish caught in the wild doesn t even come close to meeting the demand. in fact, right now, nearly half the seafood people eat comes from aqua culture or farmer. that s where any new supply will have to come from as well. brian is a third generation fisherman, also the founder of ownen blue. over the last ten years, he has developed an innovative approach to farming. he s raising his fish far out at sea. he s convinced the swift currents of the open ocean produce cleaner fish with lower impact on the environment, and he s determining to prove it in the pristine water in the coast off panama.
for me. pretty intimidating. there were so many fish coming at me. what was it like the first time for you? hard to describe. just a great place to be. i love to go inside and lay down and look up at the silhouette of the fish, the sun behind them. just a nice place to be. you could go to church on sunday morning, but i spent more time with the fish, laying down and spending time with the fish. that was your church? my church. your religious experience. yeah. twith blackberry hub10 and flick typing. built to keep you moving. see it in action at blackberry.com/z10.
first met brian a long time ago. maybe it seems like 16 years. he was a kid. he was a very nice kid to begin with. he had that passion. i went to florida to harbor ranch oceanographic institution to take a course on cultivating marine fish, and the whole class got up to speak about what they re doing, then i get up to say that all i m interested in studying is marine fish, and i is a tank in my parents basement, and immediately, he didn t believe me, so he flew to new york. i walked into my parents kitchen, opened the door to the room, and his eyes bugged out of his head. really from that point on, a really solid relationship began with him and he became a mentor.
how did you desite what kind of fish you wanted to raise? it was pretty clear early on it was a special fish. thesish from morning to afternoon, you could see them. and when we put them in the c e cages offshore, they exploded. we re growing fish to ten pounds in a year. salmon was less than a pound a year. the fish in the environment, they re not couch potatoes. they swim around all the time. it would result in cleaner, fresher tasting fish. it s firmer meat. it s overall quality is just outstanding. while wewe were diving, we all came out and to our surprise, a large whale shark was circling around outside of the cage. so it s always a treat to see what animal is out there.