We have both. As farmers of the sea, every one of our Atlantic salmon—which seems to be the most contentious from coast to coast, so just taking that one particular species, for example—that enters our oceans in net pen aquaculture for grow-out spends the first 18 months of its life on land. We, as farmers of the sea, do that, from egg to plate, responsibly and environmentally sustainably. People ask why we don't put it all on land. It's not possible. It's not financially feasible.
People use Norway, for example. I just presented before I came here to an inbound Norwegian mission. I've spent a lot of time in Norway. Our critics say that Norway is moving away from ocean-based farming, which is absolutely the furthest thing from the truth. They're looking at different levels of technology to do things differently in the ocean, but not necessarily moving the entire process to land.
The number one reason is that the ocean is a natural habitat. The ocean is there to be utilized. Once a salmon biologically requires salt water for smoltification to grow into an adult we place them back in their natural habitat. To put it in perspective, I think Carey mentioned that when you have a steak, for example, on a Friday night, not many people think about traceability or how it ended up on their plates that night. Salmon farming, outside of shellfish farming, is the most efficient form of protein farming on the planet. We use less water than beef or swine, and this is no slander toward terrestrial farming, but it is a fact. We use less water. We use less space. To provide 15 billion meals of salmon last year we used 0.00008% of the world's oceans.
It's efficient, so why not use it?