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Vision for Ocean Enterprises
True Father's interest in the ocean was not limited to the Korean Peninsula; it encompassed the entire world, notably Alaska and Hawaii. His great interest in the ocean, especially the seafood industry, stemmed from his belief that the ocean will be key to solving the world's food shortage in the future.
True Father even foresaw that human living space in the future will expand to undersea habitats.
He discussed plans for the future that anticipated a maritime age: construction of a marine hotel, underwater houses, and fisheries. He also mentioned the need to develop the North Pole and proposed constructing a cultural city in the Arctic.
As a start toward this, True Father promoted a God-centered ocean tourism and leisure industry, especially for people who enjoy fishing.
1. In the future, the land will be too crowded; so people, in the not-too-distant future, will have to live on the ocean in boats. What should we do in light of this? We will secure a worldwide foundation in the maritime industry, and once we do, we will be able to lead all the cultures of the world by expanding our reach on the coastlines of the world. (116-327, 1982/01/02)
2. The ocean is a vast world. The world of water is virtually infinite. There is no place without water. It is filled with fish that have highly potent nutrients essential for human health.
That means that the fish farming industry is certain to increase. Much of what I have been doing is because I believe the era of the ocean is coming. I have spoken extensively about this, and I am making many preparations for this coming era. The time has come to expand all this work throughout the world.
(460-113, 2004/07/15)
3. The ocean is teeming with fish and other seafood. America wants to sell the fish that Alaska processes, but it has nowhere to sell it. The Japanese people want fish, but they do not have enough.
So I am catching fish in America and selling it in Japan. Japan needs America's fish and America needs Japanese technology, so I am proposing that they start a joint venture. That is why I am calling American-Japanese couples that I have blessed and am I assigning them to fish-related businesses in America or Japan.
If one of these couples runs a joint venture, in America the American husband can be the company president and his wife the vice-president. When they go to Japan, the wife will be the company president and the American husband the vice-president. If they do this, their joint venture will go well.
It is very practical. Since each will know the culture and situation of their countries, no one will be able to pick a fight with them. No one will be able to sneak behind their backs to take over the company. (146-250, 1986/07/01)
4. The ocean's fish and seafood are an unlimited resource. Food resources on land are limited. Fish were created to form a food chain in which smaller fish are eaten by larger fish. When a fish spawns, it produces as many as 500,000 eggs.
When these eggs hatch in nature, only one percent survive and the rest are eaten. But what if we can artificially incubate 100 percent of these eggs and raise all their hatchlings?
We can feed them with dried, pulverized seaweed that we sprinkle on the water. By preventing them from being eaten, we can secure an unlimited supply of these fish.
To create such a great supply of fish, we have to farm them. Until now, people have only done conventional farming on land, but in the future people will operate fish farms instead.
Even with a small farm of one-sixth of an acre, a household can generate a good income for itself. Fish are excellent for food, filled with protein and other nutrients. (294-175, 1998/06/14)
5. The time when people require resources only from the land is passing. We will require resources from the oceans as well. Who will manage these resources? Who will develop the technology to do that?
These are key issues for the future. A new age is approaching when people who rule the ocean will lead the world. The ocean's seafood is the basic source of our unlimited nutrition. To realize this, the era of catching fish will pass, to be replaced by the era in which people farm fish. (126-202, 1983/04/19)
6. Two-thirds of the earth is covered by the ocean. In the future, when the land can no longer supply people with enough food, we will have to depend on the ocean for food. We must explore ways to survive from the food resources of the ocean.
Beginning in 1973, I began to purchase and build boats anticipating the fishing industry in the future. I investigated the fishing grounds off the east coast of the US near New York and Boston and developed my business plans. I even studied how the US regulations on the fishing industry will likely change in the future. (088-179, 1976/08/10)
7. Who will be the future masters of the ocean world? The question is: How can you become those people? The ocean is unlimited. You need to become people who know how to venture into the ocean and tame it.
We are now entering an age when, if you have the right equipment and enough oxygen tanks, you can live for one month at a time underwater.
(189-294, 1989/06/17)
8. Everyone has a desire to live in a nice place. So, I am studying submarines. Where do you think is the most splendid place to live? Living in an apartment in a crowded tower block is one thing. It would be far better to live in a house deep in the sea. Yet how is it possible to live in such a place?
For that, we would need a submarine house. Think about it: At the push of a button, we will descend to a cool place where we will not need air conditioning. In the water world, outside our window, we will be greeted by a beautiful spectacle brimming with all kinds of colors, where all kinds of fish are dancing in delightful and exciting ways. In our submarine house, we can go anywhere, with nothing blocking our way. We can go anywhere night and day.
How convenient it would be to live that way! I would love to live in such a place before going to the spirit world. Yet, I am not pursuing this dream for my pleasure; rather I am doing this research for the whole. (217-212, 1991/06/01)
9. The time will come when it will be more profitable to construct buildings for fish farming than buildings for people. The developers who build them will become the richest people in the world. In the future, the populations of the cities will have to be dispersed.
When people live in the cities, getting rid of human excrement and urine is always a serious problem. When you live in nature, everywhere you go your excrement becomes fertilizer; both urine and excrement can become fertilizer.
To deal with this problem in cities, populations of crowded cities must be redistributed in such a way that each city, wherever it is located, can handle its human waste. When that happens, people will naturally seek mountainous regions. But if they stay only in those places, they will soon get bored.
Then they will go to live in the ocean.
The time is coming when we must go into the ocean and live underwater. For this, I am currently having scholars research the idea of submarine houses. Even when a typhoon is blowing, 30 meters below the ocean's surface the waters are calm.
No matter how much the wind blows, or the waves heave in the storm, there is no storm 30 meters under the surface. There will come a time when we can press a button, say for 30 meters below or 100 meters below, and our submarine house will automatically descend to that depth.
There we will be able to live underwater while enjoying the view of the ocean, with mirrors to give you views in all directions.
Even under the ocean, you can farm fish. You only need to take the necessary equipment for cultivating your favorite kinds aboard your submarine house. Because you know where the fish's habitat is, you only need to go there and live there for a month.
Then you can ascend ten meters to another level where you know another kind of fish lives, and live there for a month. In this way, you can live underwater while going about to different places and harvesting fish wherever you go.
Things like this may come to pass in the future. By thinking about them now, I am paving the way for the age to come when we will live underwater.
(236-310, 1992/11/09)
10. One of my plans is to develop the North Pole. I plan to build a permanent city below ground, under the land covered with snow that has accumulated for tens of thousands of years.
If we build a city with all the modern conveniences in that place, I am sure everyone on earth would come there at least once. I would also like to build a university, one-third of which would be underground.
We would not need a heating system if we built it this way. It would be cool in the summer but not cold in the winter. Further, there were two dozen students to gather for class, they would naturally generate enough heat Without the need to burn fuel. Our body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius.
Generally, 10 degrees Celsius is warm enough for ordinary living. Since our body temperature is 37 degrees, once you have several people, the heat they give off would be enough to heat their underground room. With the students there, the entire place would warm quickly.
Such a time is coming. When it does, we will begin to experience a mode of life where everything in modern civilization, including its economy, will move in step with the natural world. The time has come for us to decide that we will innovate all of our systems to create the ideal world. (236-311, 1992/11/09)
11. I foresee many changes coming to the ocean-related industries. In the future, the industry will have to farm fish. Even though we are engaged in the seafood industry, I already recognized that it will be difficult for anyone to sustain their marine business in the years to come unless they combine it with tourism and develop some sort of ocean recreation industry.
Everything that we do requires money and raw materials. However, above all, we must cultivate human resources and develop our personal networks. For whatever work or business we do, we need people.
Especially, in the marine field, our main challenge is to find people who regard work on the ocean as God's calling. We need people who will love the ocean throughout their entire lives during their youth, middle age, and senior years and who, before they die, will teach their sons and daughters and even their grandchildren to also love the ocean. (262-238, 1994/08/01)
12. I predict that in the future, the leisure industry will develop greatly. People who live in the city suffer from stress and need stimulating activities to relieve that stress. What can they do? To me, there are three ways. One is hunting, another is horseback riding and the last is fishing.
Nonetheless, there are limitations to hunting and horseback riding. Horseback riding is expensive, so only a particular class of people can enjoy it. As for hunting, people can do it into their forties, but once they are over 50 it becomes difficult to enjoy.
Furthermore, in many nations, only a certain class of people can hunt for sport. However, anyone can fish from an early age. People can enjoy fishing even when they get older and are in the evening time of their lives. That is why I am saying that the fishing business will grow to become a global business. (207-123, 1990/11/01)
13. The recreation industry has to cater to people who enjoy all sorts of leisure activities. You may think, “People with money would enjoy this, but how can people without money do it?” However, that is not the case. Even now, people go on vacations. Even people with little money can manage to take a vacation once or twice a year.
In the future, through my leading role in the recreation industry, I will create a global organization that will bring together people from all walks of life, including those in the financial field, based on their shared love of recreational activities.
I believe this will be a shortcut to guiding all people toward a world of peace. That is why for several decades I have been researching, planning, and pioneering all sorts of ocean-related businesses. (252-210, 1993/12/30)
14. I think that from now on, in addition to the business of providing recreation on the ocean, we need to engage in businesses that promote recreational farming on land. In the future, people will have more time to enjoy themselves. Once that time comes, the question will arise as to how they will use that time.
When this happens, I suggest encouraging them to prepare about one-sixth of an acre as a garden and take up gardening as a hobby. Then they can harvest and enjoy their vegetables.
In addition, what about raising baby animals like deer and releasing them? What about farming fish and releasing them as well? People will farm all sorts of grains and harvest organic, natural crops without using synthetic chemicals.
How wonderful! People will experience creating all the things that God created. Then, gazing at all these things that they worked to create, they will think about God and appreciate Him for His creation. In this way, they will enjoy their life with all kinds of hobbies in the world of nature.
By caring for the natural world in every way possible, people will enjoy living harmonizing with nature before they go to the spirit world. Once they experience this, they will naturally move away from today's urban-centered society.
(252-210, 1993/12/30)
15. What kind of world will unfold in the future? We will drive pilings into the seafloor in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and create hotels there. We will make use of the versatility of helicopters. At the press of a button, they will fly us anywhere we want to go.
Since flying for three or more hours gets boring, people will fly for an hour or two and then stop to relax at a floating hotel in the middle of the Pacific.
How fantastic that will be! To make this possible, we will build hotels in the Pacific. When guests have finished relaxing at the hotel, they will travel again for about two to three hours, then stop for lunch at a floating restaurant. Then they will rent a boat and take their family deep-sea fishing. (203-058, 1990/06/14)
16. Soon the era of automobiles will pass and the era of light aircraft will begin. People from the big cities will fly to scenic spots that are only to be found in the heart of the mountains.
Secluded pools will be built there, and fishing spots will be developed, where they can swim and fish. In the future, it will be easy for people to rent an airplane as often as they like. We have entered an era when plane rental businesses can do well. That is why I am creating an aircraft company.
Large cruise ships will have a deck like an aircraft carrier that can handle dozens of small submarines and small helicopters. The ship will move slowly enough that passengers will use the helicopters on board to travel to nearby islands for fishing and then return to the ship.
Others will use small boats to travel out to fishing spots near the islands and then return. I am saying that such a time is coming. Or, knowing the ship's itinerary, people can take a helicopter to one of the destinations a week early and then rejoin the cruise on the ship.
On the sh,ip there will be facilities for wealthy business people to do all the business they want to do, with conference rooms, computers, and the Internet. The era is coming when people will enjoy traveling while working at the same time. (276-032, 1996/01/02)
Plans and projects
True Father believed that the best way to address the issue of the global food shortage is fish farming in the ocean, as it facilitates the mass production of seafood. Accordingly, he promoted large-scale fish farming enterprises.
On land as well, he pursued building fish farms in places where fish can be farmed in large quantities. These efforts were made to address the problem of food shortages around the world.
True Father developed a high-protein fish powder and, in Kodiak, Alaska, he established a factory to produce it. He then launched a project to catch krill in the waters off Antarctica, process it into powder, and then supply the powder to people suffering from malnutrition in developing countries.
For this project, he acquired ships to catch krill and factory ships to process the krill into food and set up a marketing system to supply the product to people in need. He utilized the Unification global network as a foundation to implement this vision.
17. One-third of the earth consists of land, and two-thirds is covered by the ocean. Most things living in the ocean are edible. Even seaweed is edible. Yet most plants that grow on land are not edible.
Furthermore, in the ocean, we can find mostly everything that we find on land. There are sea cows, seahorses, sea lions, sea tigers, sea snakes, and such. Besides, what a diversity of fish is living there!
Nevertheless, Americans prefer eating meat from the land to eating fish because fish is not part of their culture, and many do not like the way it smells. Recently though, many Americans have begun to pay attention to natural foods, and those that do believe that fish will enhance their longevity.
Not too long ago, I went to a cattle market in Miami and asked how much it costs for one calf. I was told it ranges anywhere from $25 to $70. In New York, it would cost $400. Yet, one large tuna costs $4,000.
Thus, one tuna is worth more than 150 calves. So which of the two, the ocean or the land, can make you richer? If you catch a big tuna, you can live off it for a whole year. (108-215, 1980/10/05)
18. The only way to resolve the world's future food shortage will be by utilizing the ocean. So people need to rely more on fish than on products of the land. We need to be prepared to make this transition.
We need money to create a global foundation for this, but no one is thinking about it or investing in it.
So, I have to come up with ways to generate funds, such as by holding sport fishing tournaments and fishing trips that attract upper-class people from around the world. But even to begin, I needed a significant amount of funding.
Furthermore, to build this foundation, I first needed to know everything necessary for it. I had to acquire the knowledge to be able to teach people where to find fish in the ocean, what kind of fish they are, what bait they like, and so on. I needed to know these things to coach them so that they would enjoy their time fishing.
When people vacation on land, after three days they might become bored with just relaxing. But on a boat out on the ocean, there are unlimited ways to enjoy oneself.
Once people connect to the mysteries hidden in the ocean world, filled with countless varieties of fish, they will want to continue their expedition even after their holiday is over. The ocean is fascinating. Try stopping the boat and casting your fishing line to the very bottom of the ocean. If you catch a big fish, you will be so excited it will take your breath away. (217-172, 1991/05/26)
19. Since the beginning of history, humankind has faced three great enemies: famine, disease, and ignorance. The people of the world need to pool their resources to fight and overcome these enemies.
These problems are showing up in serious ways in places like Africa, Central America, and South America. This is precisely the reason we need to create a business that in the future will develop the marine resources in the vast oceans.
I have created business enterprises that cover various ocean-related activities. They include building large fishing vessels, making fishing equipment, and fish farming. In the future, the ocean will supply food to all the people in the world. That is why exploring and developing the ocean is the best way to end hunger and starvation. (193-327, 1989/10)
20. In the future, humanity will face a serious food shortage. I began the ocean businesses to create a foundation in each nation to address this problem. So, while traveling around the world, I have been teaching people to prepare them to handle it. To address the problem of food shortages, we must develop the ocean.
I am a champion when it comes to catching fish in the ocean. Among the well-known people in the world, there are many who enjoy fish and fishing. I should become their teacher. Yet, how can I teach them, if after taking them out to the ocean only a couple of times I have exhausted my knowledge about fishing?
My resources must be unlimited, including a profound understanding of how and where to catch certain fish. (190-021, 1989/06/18)
21. We are the True Parents, who came to the earth to save all humanity. All people are our children. How can we not be concerned about those who are starving to death?
The reason I am engaged in ocean enterprises is that through them, we can save those people. I am also currently thinking about how to supply people with food by producing it in the great tundra plains in Alaska, the plains of Siberia, and the ice-capped regions of the North Pole. We can specialize in greenhouse farming.
I instructed some people in Alaska to work on developing this business, giving them all the necessary support. We have a base in Alaska big enough to accommodate tens of millions of people.
We can build temperature-controlled greenhouses and cultivate fruit. Then, not only will these regions supply fish and agricultural products to address the food issue, but they will also become places where many people can settle.
(218-084, 1991/07/02)
22. In the future, when people erect one small building and farm fish in it, they will be able to generate more than ten times as much income as they would by raising cattle and selling their milk and meat.
Although it is not being done, we now have the technology to draw water from the ocean and transport it anywhere. The time will come when we can supply water to places hundreds and even thousands of miles away. Once we install pipelines, it will not cost that much money.
We will be able to pump ocean water to a fish farm installation in the mountains, a multi-story building, and farm all kinds of fish in it. One person sitting in a control room will be able to monitor the whole operation.
At the press of a button, food will automatically be released into tanks, and by pressing another button the large fish will automatically be brought down to the bottom floor. (206-350, 1990/10/14)
23. We have to make fish farms. To seed them, we will incubate fish eggs and raise the hatchlings for several months. Then we will place the fish in vinyl bags, punch holes in each one, and ship them by airplane to the fish farms. Once at the fish farm, we can drop each bag of live fish into a tank of water.
This is how in the future we can start up fish farms everywhere in the world.
In Alaska, there are well over three million lakes larger than 16 acres in area. If we farm fish in these lakes, each one can sustain 200 or even 300 households. If we could farm fish in all three million lakes, it would be enough for 600 million people.
Likewise, if we could create fish farms in the many lakes in Africa, we could feed 650 million people. In this way, we would be able to solve humanity's food shortage. (271-039, 1995/08/15)
24. We cannot solve the food shortage problem by just using the land. We must develop the ocean, too.
When God created the world, He created all types of fish fit for the water and temperature of each region and each of the four seasons. We have to farm fish in consideration of all these factors.
This will not be possible as long as people act only out of self-interest. They can do all of this only if they act for God's Will and the public good. (392-314, 002/09/25)
25. I went to Alaska and studied the king salmon. The king salmon is one of the five species of the salmon family. I consider the king salmon to be the number one of all fish. This salmon dies soon after it lays its eggs.
I think God created it this way for its posterity, but now the time has come when we can use artificial means to enable the mother salmon to live, without having to sacrifice itself as food for its spawn.
If the salmon goes out to the ocean, makes it back to its birthplace, lays its eggs, and can be preserved alive, it will be the simplest and best way to produce food for human beings.
If you went to a fish farm that cultivated such salmon, you would not have any problem finding something to eat for lunch. You would experience a lunch more delicious than anything you had ever tasted. Tuna sashimi is nothing compared to this. That is how delicious king salmon is.
These days the pollution problem is becoming severe. If everyone has to use fire to cook food to eat it, eventually the pollution from all that burning will create a serious problem. So, we need to guide people to eat as much raw fish as possible. This will become a pressing issue in the future.
The destruction of the ozone layer at the South Pole is also becoming a serious problem. Seeing all these problems arising, we conclude that fish are the best way to solve humanity's food shortage problem. Fish come from eggs, and eggs are in virtually unlimited supply. (233-050, 1992/07/20)
26. During my decades in the seafood business, I have been concerned with addressing the problem of humanity's food shortage. As a result of this concern, I developed fish powder which is a high-protein food, full of nutrients that cannot be found in any animal meat.
I made it in the form of a powder that is easy to store and transport. Ninety-eight percent of the end product is protein. The developed nations are supposed to find solutions to the food shortage problem. What they have not been able to do, I am doing. (296-228, 1998/11/10)
27. Canada, Russia, America, Japan, and Germany are all interested in the oceanic enterprises that we are now undertaking. When fish are caught, a substantial part of the catch is not consumed.
It is discarded, even though it is edible and nutritious. We began collecting this part of the catch and processing it into a nutritional supplement that we hoped we could send for use in developing nations. Word got around, and now people from those nations have taken a great interest in what the Unificationists are doing. (295-111, 1998/08/18)
28. Famine is one of the most serious problems we face in the world today. Hence, we must secure food. The solution cannot even be found in the United States, only in South America. Here in South America, all you need is a hectare of land somewhere and you can plant crops.
If you clear a hectare of land and plant crops on it, no one says anything. If you travel along the borders between countries, you will find a lot of empty, idle land. If you cultivate that land, you will not starve. But after that comes an environmental issue.
That is why I encourage fish farming. We just cannot get enough quality protein from the food on land. For this reason, I am strongly promoting fish farming, and eating fish rather than meat. (281-092, 1997/01/02)
29. People in the Third World understand that I am going through hardships to save them. They know that for this purpose I made a farm in Jardim, and also that I am preparing to build a fish powder factory there.
People living in difficult circumstances in the Third World are on my side. What if the fish powder that we supply them saves the lives of the many refugees around the world and manages to solve the food shortage problem? When that happens, I am sure that a large portion of humanity will work together with us.
Then True Parents' legacy will remain forever, even if the earth sinks under the sea and the heavens collapse. By so doing, I want the descendants of today's Unification Church members to be able to praise and glorify God with confidence.
They will see the people of the world making pilgrimages to Jardim and appreciating it as the foundation of the great achievements we have made particularly of our efforts to save humanity by fish farming.
(277-143, 1996/04/07)
30. The time has arrived when we can go to the oceans near the South Pole, catch krill, and utilize it to solve the world's food shortage. This will make a real impact on humanity. That is why two-thirds of the people of the world are keeping an eye on our oceanic enterprises.
With the teachings of the Unification Church and the ocean providence, our church members are making comprehensive preparations to solve the world's food shortage. With this, the entire world can find hope. We are past the daybreak; now the time has come when the sun of hope is rising and no one can stop it. (339-110, 2000/12/07)
31. There is an unlimited number of krill in the oceans near the South Pole. There is more than enough krill to feed all humanity, but much of it just dies without being utilized for this purpose.
Our challenge is to find a way to catch the krill, quickly grind it into powder, and set up a distribution and marketing system in 185 nations to make it sell at cost. I am planning to do just that.
There is no better product for the national messiahs, who are the Abel leaders of their nations, to help their nations. Krill has all the necessary ingredients for feeding and saving their people.
That is why I am directing them to create a system to distribute this product. Our purpose is not to make a profit; all we need is to cover our costs. So, the pending issue is how we can create an efficient marketing system in each nation to fulfill this objective. (288-179, 1997/11/27)
32. We have to grind the krill we catch into powder. Ordinarily, it is difficult to do this, and hence krill is only sold as an expensive health product. However, we will mass-produce krill powder and deliver it at a minimal cost.
The only reason we are doing this is to serve humanity. If all four of our ships catch krill and are operating at optimum capacity, we can make a great impact on the problem of world hunger. We can produce enough fish powder to help half the world's starving people.
People in the Third World and developing nations already know I am doing these things for them. I have already invested a huge amount of money into research and development. We have now concluded all our experiments. To manufacture fish powder, we assembled a main factory in Uruguay and additional auxiliary facilities.
Our missions in 185 nations will cooperate with each national government, and with the help of the state's power, the way will open to distribute and sell the krill powder.
Because our purpose is to help the people of the world who are suffering from malnutrition, governments will support us. Once we can import the fish powder through our movement's networks, we will create a market to sell it in cooperation with the government of each nation. (291-121, 1998/03/05)
33. I feel hope when I talk about fish powder. To create fish powder, I purchased four 7,000-ton ships and plan to deploy them to catch krill at the South Pole. This is my solution to the global food shortage. We have to do this quickly.
The world is now watching what I am doing. In one year, they will all be able to catch up with us. Then we will have healthy competition. The well-endowed aid organizations will come with their global networks.
That is why we must move quickly. Among the national messiahs in 185 nations, I will assemble teams of four and appoint one person as the team leader.
I must begin seriously to educate and train them for this task.
(289-126, 1997/12/30)
34. We need to study how to use krill in making fish bait. Selling bait is a serious business, a global business. The fish powder we are making with krill contains many nutrients. It is wonderful for human beings.
It is also excellent for making fish bait. We are researching this step by step, experimenting with more than 20 different processes for its manufacture.
We can also make fish bait using fish that are about to die, at which point they start to smell. They generate an odor that attracts certain kinds of fish. The thousands of different types of fish in the world each have their favorite bait. We can grind it into powder and make as much fish bait as we want.
We can make dozens of different types.
Pacific, a fish native to South America, eats different things depending on the region where they live. In the Salobra River, the pacu would not bite my crabs, but they would bite the fruit of the rubber tree.
However, when I fished near the Americano Hotel in the Pantanal, the pacu would not bite the fruit of the rubber tree. Fish eat different foods depending on the region. So we should make dozens of different types of bait using high-protein krill. (313-173, 1999/11/29)
35. We have entered an era when people will be able to make as much bait for saltwater fish as they want by mixing various vitamins and ingredients from different types of fish. Some people prefer to dine on fish that ate a certain kind of food. So we have to make bait from a mix of fish powder according to their preference.
International Oceanic Enterprises (IOE) has broken the record in making fish powder. The krill at the South Pole are small. I already developed a process that enables us to extract the nutrients and transform them into food. Until now, krill was not made into food because governments did not support it. Hence, 500
a million tons of krill were perishing each year at the South Pole. Currently, our facilities catch about 100 million tons, but still, 400 million tons of krill are wasted each year. If we could only harvest all of it, we could feed as many people as we want.
There is no greater resource on earth than this. It contains numerous nutrients that are excellent for health. Krill is the reason many penguins, sea lions, and seals live near the South Pole. Human beings can survive for a week eating it, even just having a small portion for one meal per day. (554-283, 2007/02/07)
36. The foundation I have created through my ocean business is such that you can go anywhere to the South Pole or the North Pole. We are currently catching krill in the oceans near the South Pole.
Developed nations tried to make it into food, but failed. However, with the support of our research and continuing efforts, we succeeded. Hence, the krill operation that IOE has at the South Pole is at the cutting edge of the marine industry. We have reached the top of the world.
We began with two 7,000-ton ships; now we have five. When we increase this in the future to 20 ships, we can go beyond competing with other nations and start supplying enough protein to solve the malnutrition problem of all people.
(337-024, 2000/10/17)
37. It seems like only yesterday that we did not have even a single boat. We worked so hard to acquire that first boat. Our fishing enterprise that began in Gloucester near Boston has now expanded beyond Alaska and South America to arrive at the South Pole.
Under God's protection, we pioneered the ocean, and despite opposition, we have now reached the point where the world cannot ignore us. For this, I am grateful to God.
We are not in the fishing business to make money. We did it to develop the ocean industry. We built five ships and caught krill that otherwise would have died for nothing, and now we stand on the cutting edge of solving the world's food shortage problem.
Thereby, we have now gained the attention of companies and nations that also have been developing the world's marine industries. The fact that I built such a foundation beginning from Gloucester around Boston can only have been with God's support, as He followed me around wherever I went.
(344-034, 2001/03/01)
Sun Myung Moon