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of a small family home.” Following this auspicious be-

ginning, he has now raised a number of early Rising

Tide target species on a commercial scale, including the

French Grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum), the Crested

Oyster Goby (Cryptocentroides gobiodes), and the Mono

Argenteus (Monodactylus argenteus), an estuarine species

that is popular in the freshwater trade as a juvenile but

typically inhabits marine environments as an adult. Al-

though clownfishes still account for a significant portion

of FishEye’s production, Foster credits his collaboration

with Rising Tide and TAL with “being his research and

development team” for several key species and allowing

him to diversify his company’s offerings.

Today, thanks in large part to its success with various

pelagic spawners, FishEye Aquaculture has expanded its

facility, adding a new building in 2016, and continues to

refine its rearing techniques. Foster still spends most days

working in the facility with his hatchery manager, Scott

Anderson—marine fish breeding on this scale requires a

major time commitment. At the time of my visit, he was

getting ready to upgrade the filtration on some of his

larger broodstock systems and excitedly showed me one

of his newest designer clown offerings—the Tampa Pearl

Hybrid, which has some of the distinctive iridescent blue

markings seen in Bali Aquarich’s Nebula Clowns.

Things happen fast in the world of marine fish aqua-

culture, and FishEye’s rapidly evolving facility and numer-

ous ongoing projects are no exception to that rule. Foster

is quick to point to additional projects and new potential

species and discuss ways to improve on current methods.

It’s easy to see that for him, FishEye is much more than a

full-time job—it’s the culmination of a lifelong passion, a

hobbyist’s daydream come to fruition. He readily admits

that building his business has taken an extraordinary

amount of work, but this enterprise has also been a fam-

ily affair. He attributes no small part of his success to the

support and assistance of his wife, Amanda. Their three

young sons have grown up surrounded by an ever-grow-

ing collection of marine fishes, and the oldest (age 9) has

begun taking a keen interest in helping out with “chores”

at the hatchery, says Foster, smiling broadly.

As our conversation turns to the future of the in-

dustry and recent developments in marine fish breeding,

that same spark of excitement I recognized years earlier

is impossible to miss. “The future of marine aquaculture

is brighter than it ever has been before, and we can really

thank Rising Tide for that,” Foster says. “People are rais-

ing some fishes that just five years ago were a dream to

most. They’re not so much of a dream anymore.”

—Michael J. Tuccinardi

ON THE INTERNET

Rising Tide Conservation: http://www.risingtideconservation.org

FishEye Aquaculture (wholesale only):

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