Acadia Harvest’s Research Operations at UMaine Cited in Huffington Post Blog Article
Acadia Harvest Inc., a startup business housed at the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR) in Franklin, was included in the Huffington Post blog article, “As Maine’s waters warm, a seafood investor fosters climate resiliency.” Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), a nonprofit community development lender based in Wiscasset, has provided capital for a lobster processing plant, sea-vegetable producers and Acadia Harvest to help fishermen and women diversify their incomes in the face of changing fishing patterns, according to the article. Acadia Harvest, which is pioneering techniques for sustainable aquaculture, needed matching funds to qualify for state funds to grow several thousand California yellowtail, the article states. CEI provided $100,000 to Acadia Harvest to increase the scale of its research operations at UMaine.