Aquaculture

1. Los Angeles Times: May 6, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-seafarm10-2008jul10-pg,0,3551585.photogallery
Salicornia Farming
in Mexico
Carl Hodges walks
along a berm on a
research plot where he
grows salicornia and
experiments with
different planting and
harvesting techniques.
Hodges and his crew
have flooded the plots
with saltwater from the
nearby Sea of Cortez.

2. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-seafarm10-2008jul10-pg,0,3551585.photogallery?index=2
Carl Hodges holds a
salicornia plant, a
saltwater-tolerant
species that he
hopes will
eventually be used
to provide food and
biofuel for millions
of people in places
where good soil
and fresh water are
in short supply.

3. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-seafarm10-2008jul10-pg,0,3551585.photogallery?index=3
Carl Hodges is using
unproductive land
and shrimp farm
effluent to farm
salicornia, a
saltwater-tolerant
plant, on his
Seawater
Foundation's
research plot near
the Sea of Cortez in
the northern Mexico
state of Sonora.

4. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-seafarm10-2008jul10-pg,0,3551585.photogallery?index=4
Salicornia
research in
Mexico
Salicornia seeds
can be squeezed
into cooking oil,
ground into high-
protein meal or
even converted
into biofuel.

5. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-seafarm10-2008jul10-pg,0,3551585.photogallery?index=5
Salicornia research in Mexico
Marco Quinones, a colleague of Carl Hodges, looks for newly
germinated salicornia plants in the cracked earth on a research plot near
Kino Bay in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.

6. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-seafarm10-2008jul10-pg,0,3551585.photogallery?index=6
Salicornia research in Mexico
A steer roams on the Sonoran desert, where Mexican farmers have
pumped the underground aquifers nearly dry, causing many to abandon
their shriveled fields. Carl Hodges hopes to restore the land by growing
salicornia, which thrives in heat and pitiful soil on little more than a
regular dousing of seawater.

7. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-seafarm10-2008jul10-pg,0,3551585.photogallery?index=7
Salicornia research in
Mexico
A shrine graces the entrance to Don
Oscar Nettinger's home on the Sea of
Cortez in Sonora, Mexico. Nettinger, a
shrimp farmer, is working with Carl
Hodges to use effluent from his
aquaculture operations to irrigate
Hodges' salicornia fields.

8. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-seafarm10-2008jul10-pg,0,3551585.photogallery?index=8
Salicornia research in Mexico
Carl Hodges stands on a
beach near Kino Bay, where
he hopes to begin large-scale
farming of saltwater-tolerant
salicornia for use as food and
biofuel. Hodges plans to
channel seawater to nourish
shrimp ponds, then channel
it further to irrigate fields of
salicornia.