(13 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dateland, Arizona - 19 April 2025
1. Various of Matt Mangan feeding farmed fish
2. Detail of Matt Mangan holding a juvenile barramundi
3. Wide silhouette of Matt Mangan feeding farmed fish
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Mangan, president, Mainstream USA:
"Yeah so we’ve been farming barramundi now for 25 years back home in Australia. We’ve built some significant farms, some really outstanding farms back in Australia. And it was probably about five years ago now that we identified an opportunity for growth and the U.S. was the logical step for us.”
5. Wide of truck carrying fish meal tank
6. Detail of fish food being shot out of cannon
7. Cutaway of fish food floating in water
8. Wide of fish splashing in tank
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Mangan, president, Mainstream USA:
"We also looked at our water management strategy and we wanted to reduce the amount of water that we were using to produce these fish."
10. Wide of irrigation system in aquaculture pond
11. Cutaway of water coming out of pipe into aquaculture pond
12. Wide of aquaculture pond
13. Aerial of aquaculture ponds and nearby alfalfa field ++MUTE++
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Mangan, president Mainstream USA:
"Our runoff water, our byproduct, is being irrigated out onto crops to produce Bermuda grass, or hay, for the dairy industry. The water runoff coming out of our systems has a level of nitrate in it, so it's essentially liquid fertilizer.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tucson, Arizona - 20 April 2025
15. Wide of Kevin Fitzsimmons entering greenhouse lab
16. Wide of Kevin Fitzsimmons walking by fish tanks in greenhouse
17. Medium of Kevin Fitzsimmons feeding fish in lab
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Fitzsimmons, professor, University of Arizona:
"Land-based aquaculture, whether that’s in some type of recirculating system or more like what we’re doing here in the desert of growing fish in tanks or pools, small ponds, and then putting it out to irrigate field crops, we think is a very efficient use of land and water.”
19. Wide of Kevin Fitzsimmons taking fish out of tank
20. Cutaway of fish in bottom of net
21. Medium of Kevin Fitzsimmons reaching into net
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Fitzsimmons, professor, University of Arizona:
"So in Arizona, desert areas around the world, we use lots of water for irrigated agriculture. And to me, it's crazy to only use that water once.”
23. Detail of Kevin Fitzsimmons holding farmed tilapia
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Fitzsimmons, professor, University of Arizona:
"I think wild seafood is going to have a harder time than domesticated aquaculture with climate change, if I were to be honest.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dateland, Arizona - 19 April 2025
25. Various aerial of aquaculture ponds ++MUTE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tucson, Arizona - 20 April 2025
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Fitzsimmons, professor, University of Arizona:
"So we do use a lot of water, but we provide a lot of jobs and a lot of foo... [truncated]
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