The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is a government operated organization designed to carry out projects set forth every four years by the Minister of Science. Their ever-expanding facilities are equipped and designed to carry out any number of marine research projects. Currently, their aquaculture facilities are working on the crayfish industry. AIMS, in addition to many other groups and organizations are trying to answer the question, "how will we feed the people?" Because as overpopulation gets worse and worse, we must start turning to new methods of food production and cultivation. We need protein and other nutrients. The sea is becoming an increasinly attractive source of this as we devastate our agricultural resources. But of course we are devastating even the seemingly unlimited resources of the sea, which is where aquaculture comes in. What happens when the climate warms is no longer the main interest to all marine science industries, because instead of solving that problem, we've managed to create another, possibly more pressing issue. So let's hope we solve this one before we create another one...at least there is some hope in aquaculture, but it may be years before it reaches the capacity we need, until then, well hopefully we can manage.
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