NYC professor promotes urban fish farm

August 11th, 2006 in Other Sciences / Other
NYC professor promotes urban fish farm (AP)

Dr. Martin Schreibman checks on the health of one of his tilapia fish at his laboratory Tuesday, Aug 8, 2006, in New York. Schreibman, founder and director of Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center at Brooklyn College, is using the fish to demonstrate and promote urban fish farming. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

(AP) -- In the basement of an ivy-covered building on the surprisingly leafy campus of Brooklyn College is something even more surprising: thousands of tilapia packed tighter than a subway car into 300-gallon fiberglass fish tanks.

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