Nova Southeastern University, near Ft. Lauderdale, took over an abandoned sewer plant that attracted vandals, and then sandblasted every crevice and built a fish farm in it. Nova Professors and students conduct research and work with local residents to raise 50,000 tilapia (a light fish that tastes like trout), but once the farm makes a profit, the community will reap the financial rewards. “”You can see the neighborhood improving, because there s civic pride,”" says oceanographer Bart Baca, center director. (David Marcus, U. News & World Report, May 24, 1999, p. 61.)
Contact: Bart Baca, Director of Aquaculture Programs, baca {at} nova(.)edu
Davie Aquaculture Research Center web site: http://www.nova.edu/ocean/aqua/ (this is the former sewage plant where the fish are grown)
