Well…yes, there is. Wendell Berry quotes Wes Jackson when he calls it "eyes to acres" and would assert that when it comes to agriculture, there certainly is a difference.

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/391/digging_in?page=1

Which is not to say that small producers are immune from trouble. Still, there is a strong case that small producers have an entirely different strategy of operations than large industrial farms. Plunkett and regulators want to treat small farms as small factories, when most of the time that simply isn't the case.

As someone from a fishing family and business, I find it sad that people buy into this ideal that this is a better alternative than just having the enforced regulations. As an Alaskan Fishing Family, we follow the strict regulations. Obviously, the gluttony of the East Coast has shown what happens when regulations are not enforced. As with any natural enviornment you have to respect the earth.

It would be interesting to learn how they have managed to keep the rivers pollutants out of the fish abosorbption or the planktons. As with any reverse waterways one must look at the reprecussions. Catfish farms are a good example, shrimp farms, and as we are all to familiar with dreaded Asian Carp.

It would be interesting to know if this farm contends with only native lines or are they transplanting lines of fish?

If we are to build a community based on using real farmers, than we have to contend with looking at fisherman as Water Farmers. As with anything, I am wary of Humans reconfiguing the natural enviornments to make sure they can have their fish to eat. Due to the fact that they have overfished their seas.

I find it interesting, but when it comes to raising fish in human made enviornments over the natural seas, well I dare say I would go with the latter than the former. Mother Nature always prevails, and she has never steered me wrong.