Fish Farm Benthic Impact Simulator

An open-water fish farm doesn't spread its organic waste evenly across the ocean floor — it deposits it in a localized footprint directly beneath and downcurrent of the net-pens, where uneaten feed and concentrated fish faeces sink out of the water column and accumulate faster than sediment bacteria can safely break it down. This simulator tracks that footprint in real time: adjust stocking density and local current strength and watch the seafloor heatmap shift between a diverse, oxygen-rich benthic community and a degraded, oxygen-poor zone dominated by pollution-tolerant opportunists, while peak-severity and affected-area readouts quantify the trade-off.