CORL's new Maloata Office Mariculture center Picts

[Mike King]

On June 26 2005, The Gurr family here in American Samoa approved the Donation of a house for the use as the CORL-AS west side office and Mariculture center. We can start working on the building immediately and land use permits should not be a problem as the first two acres of land are already cleared.
Here are some pictures of the house and property and a few shots of the beach area and small harbor where we will be doing ocean mariculture.

 

[Mike King]

more picts

 

[bookfish]

Very exciting. Please keep us updated.-Jim

 

[dizzy]

That's awesome Mike. I'm very glad to hear things are progressing for you.
Mitch

 

[Anonymous]

Looks & sounds great, except, I sure hope your not going to "clear" more land for the facility. It sure would seem ironic to deforest, and farm coral in place of it IMO. I bet no one knows the real % of trees to coral, but I'm sure in AS it's quite heavily squewed to way way way more corals then trees

 

[Mike King]

Land adjacent is a plantation occupied by banannas, Taro, and bread fruit. the area that the plantation occupys is a natural wind tunnel and the harbor faces north to cyclone alley.

Mike

 

[Anonymous]

Excellent, glad to hear that Mike. Sounds like your going to be as green/blue as possiable Definitly take up the plantation land, coral farming IMO is a better use then that type of ag (unless it's being used to feed the masses of the island).

 

[Mike King]

Actually was just talking to the donor yesterday about setting up a Aquaponics demonstration project on part of the property.
Raise fish and use effluent to raise crops, that way one can get a lot higher yield without pesticides, herbicides, etc and the entire system can be run off solar energy (Our goal with the mariculture facility also).

Mike