National Geographic Features VA’s Blue Ridge Aquaculture

 A local company is receiving worldwide exposure in the latest issue of National Geographic magazine.

Blue Ridge Aquaculture, which is based at the Martinsville Industrial Park, is featured in a story in the magazine’s June issue called “How to Farm a Better Fish.” The piece is part of an eight-month series on food security and sustainability.

The story focuses on aquaculture — the growth of aquatic animals and plants for food — as the future of the seafood industry. It includes interviews with more than half a dozen people, including a fish geneticist in Shanghai, a company president in Panama, and Blue Ridge Aquaculture President Bill Martin, at what the writer describes as “a dark, dank warehouse in the Blue Ridge foothills of Virginia.”

Writer Joel K. Bourne Jr. begins the piece with Martin.

To read the rest of the story, please go to: Martinsville Bulletin