Healthy Communities

A Farmer to Farmer Exchange Program to Support Innovation in Maine’s Aquaculture Sector

Lead PI: Chris Davis PI Email: christopher.v.davis@gmail.com Co-PI: Anne Langston Noll, Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center Project Team: Chris Davis & Anne Langston Noll, Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center Abstract: Small aquaculture businesses tend to operate using locally-derived processes and technologies, often without regard to practices conducted elsewhere, resulting in frequent “reinvention of the wheel”. An aquaculture-specific […]

Bringing Maine to the Mountains

Lead PI: John Herrigel PI Email: johnherrigel@gmail.com Co-PI: David Lasky, Maine Oyster Company Project Team: John Herrigel & David Lasky, Maine Oyster Company Abstract: As Goal 3 of the Maine Aquaculture Roadmap articulates, Maine needs to expand awareness of its aquaculture products and increase engagement with the Maine brand. Our proposal directly addresses these needs. As […]

Highlighting Maine Fishermen as Leaders in Sustainable Aquaculture

Lead PI: Jesse Baines PI Email: jbaines@atlanticseafarms.com Project Team: Jesse Baines, Atlantic Sea Farms; Briana Warner, Atlantic Sea Farms; Liz MacDonald, Atlantic Sea Farms Abstract: While participation in Maine’s aquaculture industry by fishermen has grown in the recent past, many within Maine’s fishing communities remain either skeptical or largely unaware of opportunities in Maine’s aquaculture sector. […]

Touch Tank for Sea Farmers: Healthy Coastal Communities Through Sea Food, Sea Farms, and Education

Lead PI: Sara Randall PI Email: srandall@downeastinstitute.org Abstract: The Downeast Institute has proposed this project to enable the purchase of a state-of-the-art portable marine touch tank and associated supplies. This touch tank will be taken to outreach events across the state by DEI staff and available to rent by aquaculturists for the same purpose. The […]

Expanding Market Opportunities for Maine Kelp Grown by Fishermen

Lead PI: Briana Warner PI Email: bwarner@oceanapproved.com Project Team: Briana Warner, Atlantic Sea Farms; Peter Rahn, Atlantic Sea Farms; Jesse Baines, Atlantic Sea Farms; Zoe Croft, Atlantic Sea Farms Abstract: Atlantic Sea Farms’ mission is to create opportunities for small, owner- operated fishermen/farmers to farm kelp as an off-season income source and reduce dependence on […]

Atlantic Sea Farms: Kelp Blancher

Lead PI: Peter Rahn PI Email: prahn@oceanapproved.com Co-PI: Briana Warner, Atlantic Sea Farms Project Team: Peter Rahn, Atlantic Sea Farms; Briana Warner, Atlantic Sea Farms Abstract: The main goal of this project is to purchase and retrofit an industrial vegetable blancher for seaweed blanching. This will increase production capacity at Atlantic Sea Farms (ASF), allowing […]

Ocean Smart Farm: Mechanizing Biofouling Control in Oyster Farming

Lead PI: Keith Butterfield PI Email: keith@butterfieldshellfish.com Project Team: Austin Donnelly, Butterfield Shellfish; Karen Butterfield, Butterfield Shellfish; Dana Morse, Maine Sea Grant; Chris Davis, Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center; Aaron Pannell, FlipFarm Abstract: The ultimate goal of this project is to completely transform oyster farming in the U.S. by implementing mechanical devices to control biofouling and […]

Sustainable Aquaculture Workforce and Innovation Center

Lead PI: Deborah Bouchard PI Email: deborah.bouchard@maine.edu Co-PI: Meggan Dwyer Project Team: Deborah Bouchard, Meggan Dwyer, Heather Hamlin, Robert Harrington, Matt Hawkyard Abstract: The University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute proposes to build a state-of-the-art, 15,000-square-foot aquaculture workforce training and commercialization facility in Orono. The Sustainable Aquaculture Workforce and Innovation Center will ﬁll a gap […]

Developing new techniques to detect off-flavor in water and Atlantic salmon tissues

Lead PI: Robert Harrington PI Email: robert.harrington@maine.edu Co-PI: Deborah Bouchard Project Team: Robert Harrington and collaborators from the USDA ARS NCWMAC Abstract: This project aims at developing a cost-effective and quicker method to detect off-flavor in Atlantic salmon grown in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). ARS and UMaine will examine methodologies to optimize off-flavor detection in […]

Fish, farms, and shared futures: Defining public perceptions of land-based aquaculture to support sustainable decision-making

Lead PI: Laura Rickard Co-PI: Dr. Bridie McGreavy, Dr. Branden Johnson Abstract:The main objectives of this project were: Objective 1: Understand how support for, and/or opposition to, the present and/or planned siting of land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facilities is represented in public discourse in various spatially distributed U.S. communities. Methods included conducting in-depth interviews […]

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