Researchers have several algae goals, aimed toward oil

The Press Enterprise
10:00 PM PDT on Tuesday, August 17, 2010
By LESLIE BERKMAN
The Press-Enterprise

On sun-baked land north of the Salton Sea where striped bass once were farmed in pools, entrepreneurs today are cultivating algae, another aquatic crop that might someday replace petroleum and combat greenhouse gases.

Jack Van Olst and business partner Jim Carlberg, both marine biologists, in 1979 founded Kent SeaTech fish farm, which gained prominence as the first to cultivate striped bass for food, selling 3 million pounds of bass a year in the mid-1990s.

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