Metropolis is running a great essay that explores 20 ideas for rebuilding New Orleans. There are some really imaginative ideas including this one, which is by far my favorite:
13) Build a System of Community Aquaculture
Most New Orleanians, black or white, rich or poor, love seafood, and many of them make live-caught fish and shellfish part of their regular diet. They put down crab traps, crawfish traps, or slat traps for catfish or they fish, net shrimp, dig oysters or otherwise forage in the waters of bayou, river, lake, and marsh. Designing a network of managed nurseries for a variety of kinds of marine life, which can be harvested by ordinary people with ordinary tools, could make New Orleans a model for a sustainable city in a difficult place. Use the place, don’t fight it. The people of New Orleans always have.
I LOVE the idea of neighborhood crawfish and catfish ponds!
That would by my utopia
Posted by: CHOMPS | November 04, 2005 at 10:16 AM
Sonny, you should do it. You can leverage your experience with building community gardens, your fishing expertise and your undergraduate ichthyology studies into championing & designing community aquaculture nurseries. Can you imagine riding your bike to the City Park catfish pond?? YES!
Posted by: Jonah | November 04, 2005 at 10:42 AM