Healthy Populations

Biocompatibility of intraperitoneally implanted TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofiber hydrogels for antigen delivery in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) vaccines

Lead PI: Sarah Turner PI Email: sarah.turner@maine.edu Project Team: Deborah Bouchard, Kora Kukk, Inga Sidor, Michael Mason Abstract: Disease outbreaks are a major impediment to aquaculture production, and vaccines are integral for disease management. Vaccines can be expensive, vary in effectiveness, and come with adjuvant-induced adverse effects, causing fish welfare issues and negative economic impacts. […]

Rapid differentiation of infectious salmon anemia virus avirulent (HPR0) from virulent (HPRΔ) variants using multiplex RT-qPCR

Lead PI: PI Email: Co-PI: Abstract: Abstract. Infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV; Isavirus salaris) causes an economically important disease of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). ISA outbreaks have resulted in significant losses of farmed salmon globally, often with a sudden onset. However, 2 phenotypically distinct variants of ISAV exist, each with divergent disease outcomes, associated […]

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 […]

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 […]

Developing Hatchery Methods to Consistently Produce Sea Scallops to Promote Scallop Aquaculture: Husbandry, broodstock, and nursery trials

Lead PI: Dr. Brian Beal PI Email: bbeal@maine.edu Co-PI: Kyle Pepperman Project Team: Dr. Brian Beal, Downeast Institute; Kyle Pepperman, Downeast Institute; Alex de Koning, Hollander & de Koning Mussel Farm; Sara Randall, Downeast Institute Abstract: A major bottleneck exists in the development of a sea scallop aquaculture industry. Currently, the only supply of scallop […]

Reducing cost of biotoxin testing in scallop aquaculture

Lead PI: Nate Perry PI Email: nate8959@yahoo.com Co-PI: Damian Brady Project Team: Nate Perry, Pine Point Oyster Company; Damian Brady, University of Maine School of Marine Sciences; Dana Morse, Maine Sea Grant; Titan Fan, Beacon Analytical Services; Jingping Xie, Beacon Analytical Services; Thomas Kiffney, University of Maine; Struan Coleman, University of Maine Abstract: A 2019 […]

Mussel farming trials in Downeast Maine: testing new opportunities to expand Maine’s mussel aquaculture industry

Lead PI: Dr. Robert Wood PI Email: bwood@sunrisecounty.org Co-PI: Dr. Brian Beale, Downeast Institute Project Team: Dr. Robert Wood, Downeast Fisheries Partnership; Dr. Brian Beale, Downeast Institute; Kyle Pepperman, Downeast Institute; Jeff Robinson, Downeast Institute; Dianne Tilton, Downeast Institute; Chris Bartlett, Maine Sea Grant Abstract: This project will conduct mussel (Mytilus edulis) farming trials in […]

Testing the efficiency of the net washing machine for intermediate culture of the Atlantic sea scallop

Lead PI: Caitlin Cleaver PI Email: caitlin.cleaver@maine.edu Co-PI: Marsden Brewer, Maine Aquaculture Co-Op President Project Team: Alex de Koning, Marsden and Bobby Brewer, Andrew Peters, Hannah Twombly & Connor O’Neil, Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership, Peter Miller, Merritt Carey, Skip Connell, Jason Witham, Paul Savoy Abstract: Lantern nets are widely used as an […]

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 […]

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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