What exactly is this?
On Korea’s south coast, in the bay that is formed by water between Geoje Island and the mainland (just to use one example), you have this:
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Click ‘View larger map’ under the picture for a better view in Google Maps.
Obviously it is fishing of some sort, on an industrial scale, but what kind I wonder? Trawl lines perhaps? That’s what I’m leaning towards, but they could be farms. There are boats on some of them, and boats that are steaming avoid them, so there are floats on the water I imagine. Could it actually be strings of floats that we’re seeing? I’m thinking that’s what it is. I’ve heard that there are a lot of farms to the south.
Anyway, it is interesting. The productivity of the waters around Korea is unbelievable. I can’t even begin to imagine what is plucked from coastal waters here every day. There are 20 million more people in South Korea alone than there are in Canada, and just about every Korean loves seafood and eats it very often, if not daily. All that food comes out of a coastal fishing area much smaller than the continental shelf off Newfoundland.
Update:
A further look tells me that I’m likely right about it being trawls rather than farms. A nearby bay has what are obviously farms:
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I suppose farms for different species could look different, but I suspect not that different. I’m gonna say trawls? What do you think?
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One more note on the satellite maps–they really do vary in quality from place to place. I just checked a few places in England and some parts of it were…well, scary:
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See the man’s shadow? I know they have satellites that can read your plate number now, but this is publicly available stuff.
It’s a rabbit.
