September 8, 2013 — Three Baltimore researchers, seeking to turn one of the ocean’s greediest carnivores into a vegetarian, announced recently that they pulled off the feat.
Cobia is a sleek and powerful fish that devours meat — crab, squid, smaller fish, you name it.
Three Baltimore researchers, seeking to turn one of the ocean’s greediest carnivores into a vegetarian, announced recently that they pulled off the feat.
The conversion could help break a cycle in which the ocean’s small fish — menhaden, anchovies and sardines — are plundered by industrial fishing in part to provide feed to aquaculture, one of the world’s fastest-growing economic sectors.