Wow...I thought up PART of this a ways back and did some research on it... Seems there are at LEAST a few people who were attempting to Grow shrimp in a controlled habitat for consumption...
Background:
In Florida, People hated the Mosquitos.
People loved eating shrimp.
People Drained off swamps to build Places to eat and shop and live (and to get rid of Mosquitos).
Here's the kicker...
SHRIMP EAT MOSQUITOS.
Smaller mosquito population=Smaller shrimp population.
People get angry that shrimp prices climb and they can't see why...
So someone finally figured out that it's all connected, and they built a SYSTEM to account for it all. Sure---Dragonfly's are thrown in to eat the Mosquitos, but those die too. You can't eliminate a part of the system without repurcussions, because to keep it functioning WELL, the chain of events/actions needs to be contiguous. So they substituted a longer chain in place of the singular link. MORE DIVERSITY IS GOOD.
Throw in enough of a variation of elements at differing levels, and a system will eventually come to some sort of equilibrium (approximately) to allow it to survive. Without the key factors, though, it all comes to a grinding stop.
Unfortunately, it generally takes such a HUGE number of factors to comprise a fully functioning system, it's hard to take everything into effect when you try to build a new one.
And THAT's why shrimp farming didn't work, and now apparantly does....I think.
Mmmmmmm....barbecued shrimp.....
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And We'll SEE who's better at "Embracing and extending..."
Wow...I thought up PART of this a ways back and did some research on it... Seems there are at LEAST a few people who were attempting to Grow shrimp in a controlled habitat for consumption...
Background:
In Florida, People hated the Mosquitos.
People loved eating shrimp.
People Drained off swamps to build Places to eat and shop and live (and to get rid of Mosquitos).
Here's the kicker...
SHRIMP EAT MOSQUITOS.
Smaller mosquito population=Smaller shrimp population.
People get angry that shrimp prices climb and they can't see why...
So someone finally figured out that it's all connected, and they built a SYSTEM to account for it all. Sure---Dragonfly's are thrown in to eat the Mosquitos, but those die too. You can't eliminate a part of the system without repurcussions, because to keep it functioning WELL, the chain of events/actions needs to be contiguous. So they substituted a longer chain in place of the singular link. MORE DIVERSITY IS GOOD.
Throw in enough of a variation of elements at differing levels, and a system will eventually come to some sort of equilibrium (approximately) to allow it to survive. Without the key factors, though, it all comes to a grinding stop.
Unfortunately, it generally takes such a HUGE number of factors to comprise a fully functioning system, it's hard to take everything into effect when you try to build a new one.
And THAT's why shrimp farming didn't work, and now apparantly does....I think.
Mmmmmmm....barbecued shrimp.....