Catfish, the Other White Meat
Right around Thanksgiving every year, and lasting until Christmas, people eat pumpkins. No one eats them during the summer, a springtime pumpkin cocktail is not available, and pumpkin soup is just nasty. But does anyone ever bother to ask WHY?

Tradition.

We take the blandest member of the squash family, and eat it once a year like some sort of national penance. This is the sort of strange idiocy we have with all of our diet, and it is going to require some radical change for the next 100 years. Aquaculture is going to help us cross that barrier.
Butterball Flounder?

Ok, so carving a flounder at Christmas is not exactly a challenge, but this is where we are headed. Oceanic protien farming is becoming necessary as we allocate more of our crops to produce fuels in the form of alcohol and sugar. Instead of using our carbs to make protiens, we are using our carbs to make higher functioning carbs. As a result, America is getting FAT, farmers and ranchers are getting RICH, and we are starving the rest of the world so we can have a Cherry Coke on demand. This is not sustainable agriculture–this is a global suicide jump.
Shrimp Fruitcake Bites

As good as that sounds (especially with pecans) this is not a viable recipe. No one eats fruitcake.
Aquaculture and Sally Struthers

In order to meet demand for protien, aquaculture has several advantages over traditional farming. First of all, an oceanic protien farmer is not limited by season or acreage–protien farming can take place all year long. Secondly, fish and shrimp and shellfish can be harvested several times a year, ensuring a steady food supply. Third, the potential for pollution is low due to continuous water flow. And last, oceanic protien farming ensures that food stocks have a chance to replenish themselves on a regular basis, instead of at the whim of nature and the hundreds of miles of fishing nets being dragged through the water daily.
Aquaculture and Nebraska

The idea of aquaculture existing on bleak, barren, landlocked farmland like Nebraska is enticing. As flat and boring and functionally useless as Nebraska is, a huge catfish and crawfish farm is just the thing to spice up the average Nebraskans lifestyle. In fact, Nebraska is just one pot of cajun crawfish boil away from being a part of the United States! Aquaculture can take place far from the ocean–catfish farms and even shrimp farming can be profitable with local water supplies and some water additives ( mostly salt, which is cheaper than you can imagine). Once Nebraska gets out of the corn farming business, the residents will feel healthier, happier, and even start getting tans and speaking with an accent.
Aquaculture on the Skids

Finally, aquaculture is a proven method of growing food. Instead of large scale land-based protien farms which require HUGE amounts of feed and antibiotics, fish farming just needs water. Most of the world already eats a huge amount of fish, and it is high time the United States catches up.