" Want to scale food production? Restorative ocean farms have the capacity to grow massive amounts of nutrient-rich food. Professor Ronald Osinga at Wageningen University in the Netherlands has calculated that a global network of sea-vegetable farms totaling 180,000 square kilometers—roughly the size of Washington State—could provide enough protein for the entire world population. A modest goal of five hundred twenty-acre farms would produce 120 million pounds of shellfish and in the range of eleven to forty million pounds of seaweeds, depending on the species grown—that’s a lot of food. "

― , Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer