Healthy Ecosystems

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 […]

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Scallop Equipment

Lead PI: Hugh Cowperthwaite PI Email: Hugh.Cowperthwaite@ceimaine.org Co-PI: Dana Morse Project Team: Hugh Cowperthwaite, Coastal Enterprises, Inc.; Dana Morse, Maine Sea Grant Abstract: Atlantic sea scallops are growing in popularity for Maine growers to cultivate and offer new species. Since no hatchery exists, growers must collect seed themselves or purchase from one known Casco Bay grower who […]

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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 […]

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Expanding green sea urchin production by removing key aquaculture challenges

Lead PI: Coleen Suckling, University of Rhode Island PI Email: coleensuckling@uri.edu Co-PI: Stephen Eddy Project Team: Coleen Suckling, University of Rhode Island; Stephen Eddy, University of Maine CCAR; Luz Kogson, University of Maine CCAR; Dana Morse, University of Maine Sea Grant; David Quinby, Ocean Resources, Inc.; Jordan Kramer, Winnegance Oyster Farm; Sarah Redmond, Springtide Seaweed  Abstract: This proposal […]

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Domestication and Breeding of Northern Lumpfish to Accelerate Commercialization and Use for Sea Lice Biocontrol in the Northeast US

Lead PI: Stephen Eddy PI Email: steve.eddy@maine.edu Co-PI: Elizabeth Fairchild, University of New Hampshire Project Team: Stephen Eddy, University of Maine CCAR; Benjamin Reed, University of Maine CCAR; Christopher Bartlett, University of Maine Sea Grant; Elizabeth Fairchild, University of New Hampshire; Andrew Swanson, Cooke Aquaculture; Bill Kelleher, Kennebec River Biosciences; Michael Pietrak, USDA ARS Abstract: This project establishes captive […]

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Sustainable US cleaner fish production: developing a lumpfish broodstock program

Lead PI: Elizabeth Fairchild (UNH) PI Email: elizabeth.fairchild@unh.edu Co-PI: Heather Hamlin, Michael Chambers (UNH), Todd Guerdat (USDA) Project Team: Greg Lambert and Geoff McBriarty (Cooke), Danny Boyce (Memorial University of Newfoundland), and Scott Flood (Blue Water Fisheries) Abstract: Lumpfish, a species native to the Gulf of Maine, are proven successful cleanerfish that can delouse salmonids […]

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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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A decision support system for sea lice management in salmon aquaculture

Lead PI: Kelly Cole PI Email: kelly.cole@maine.edu Co-PI: Ian Bricknell, Mike Pietrak & Damian Brady Project Team:Ellie Ghlan Abstract: Over 90% of Maine aquaculture landed value comes from farmed Atlantic Salmon. One of the more limiting and potentially environmentally destructive factors associated with salmon aquaculture in Maine is salmon, or sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer […]

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