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Ocean Ranch An Ocean Ranch is an ocean based integrated resource platform. The concept subsets include open ocean cage based aquaculture and ocean based renewable energy. The need behind the concept is the sharing of offshore platform development costs which are a barrier to sole platform development efforts.

Open Ocean Aquaculture
Open ocean aquaculture is the deployment of aquaculture operations including fin fish, shellfish and algal species in the open ocean environment.

Offshore Renewable Energy
Ocean based renewable energy includes energy produced from open ocean sources such as offshore wind, wave, tide, current and ocean thermal resources.

The Ocean Ranch Support Platform
The Ocean Ranch utilizes an integrated platform based upon the structure of the renewable resource platform as a support structure for the open ocean cage operations.