. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Family's aquaculture experiment passes taste test Not everything that grows in the Moores' greenhouse is green. Just past the salad greens and vegetable seed- lings is a 550-gallon tank. And inside swims a crop with gills, fins and an ap- petite for algae. There's a bit of the pioneer in Joyce and Allen Moore. Aquaculture, for them, has been part experiment and part adventure. They've had a few setbacks—cold water, periods when the fish wouldn't grow, a clog-prone clarifier—but lately things are looking up
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Family's aquaculture experiment passes taste test Not everything that grows in the Moores' greenhouse is green. Just past the salad greens and vegetable seed- lings is a 550-gallon tank. And inside swims a crop with gills, fins and an ap- petite for algae. There's a bit of the pioneer in Joyce and Allen Moore. Aquaculture, for them, has been part experiment and part adventure. They've had a few setbacks—cold water, periods when the fish wouldn't grow, a clog-prone clarifier—but lately things are looking up. And this spring, their experiment passed its stiffest test when the Moores sat down to their first plates of home- grown tilapia. "They were pan-size, with good tex- ture and few bones," Joyce says. "The meat itself was very good. They tasted faintly of algae around the gut cavity, but we should be able to eliminate that problem by reducing the algae popula- tion and by holding the fish in fresh water for a day or so before we clean ; The Moores' 8- by 20-ft. green- house, finished in 1980, adjoins the south side of the house they built themselves high in the mountains of Jackson County, N. C. Allen, who teaches biology at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, supplies some scientific knowhow to their homesteading. Joyce, a weaver, is home enough to keep an eye on things and to make sure their garden, green- house, orchard and livestock stay productive. The Moores feel that food Photo by Laurel Hort is best and safest when it is fresh and homegrown. And that's one reason they've turned to aquaculture. "We're definitely interested in food production," Joyce says. "And aquaculture is an efficient way of producing good ; Allen says that fish-farming and greenhouses are natural companions. Efficient solar greenhouses, he ex- plains, use some kind of massive material to absorb excess solar energy. This heat sink can radi
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