Singapore engineer pivots from oil rigs to 'fish farm of the future'


Leow Ban Tat, CEO and founder of the Aquaculture Centre of Excellence (ACE) Farm Eco Ark fish farm, looking at workers cleaning a tank in Singapore. A high-tech fish farm floats just off the coast of Singapore, part of a plan by a retired engineer who once built oil rigs to bring diners cleaner, healthier seafood. - AFP

A high-tech fish farm floats just off the coast of Singapore, part of a plan by a retired engineer who once built oil rigs to bring diners cleaner, healthier seafood.

The tiny city-state imports 90 percent of its food but hopes to locally source about a third of it by 2030 to guard against supply disruptions such as climate change, disease and conflict.

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