Open Blue Sea Farms is the result of nearly a decade of cutting edge investigative research and study on open ocean aquaculture in collaboration with the word’s leading scientific laboratories and universities. Open Blue's founder, Brian O'Hanlon is a open ocean aquaculture veteran. Through his first venture, Snapperfarm, Inc. he was one of the first in the world to move fish farming into the open sea. He pioneered the use of advanced cage designs for deep water, high energy, open ocean sites. He was the first to stock mutton snapper and cobia in open ocean cages in the Western hemisphere and the first to successfully market and sell large quantities of premium cobia to the U.S. market.