Today cage culture is receiving more attention by both researchers and commercial
producers. Factors such as increasing consumption of fish, some declining wild fish
stocks, and a poor farm economy have produced a strong interest in fish production
in cages. Many small or limited resource farmers are looking for alternatives to
traditional agricultural crops. Aquaculture appears to be a rapidly expanding
industry and one that may offer opportunities even on a small scale. Cage culture
also offers the farmer a chance to utilize existing water resources which in most cases
have only limited use for other purposes