Amazing stuff!
"Just a short ferry ride from the Chinese port city of Yantai sits Genghai No. 1, a strange offshore complex that combines a tourist attraction with an industrial fish farm. It even has a seven-story visitor center shaped like a cartoon starfish. But its main purpose is to breed fish and release them into the ocean.
Genghai is part of China's ambitious marine ranching program. Since 2015, the country has built 169 demonstration ranches and released at least 167 billion juvenile fish and shellfish. But the approach has also proved controversial."
"... The facility is a next-generation showcase for the country’s ambitious plans, which call for 200 pilot projects by 2025. It’s a 5G-enabled, AI-equipped “ecological” ranch that features submarine robots for underwater patrols and “intelligent breeding cages” that collect environmental data in near-real time to optimize breeding by, for example, feeding fish automatically. ..."

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