Services

Services

ARI’s facilities and researcher faculty and staff offer a range of services that span the innovation pipeline from the idea phase to monitoring and diagnostics to development and commercialization.

Salmon Eggs up close

ARI researchers run a full-service feed and nutrition lab. The group is capable of fish feed formulation and evaluation of alternative feedstuffs using digestibility trials, production performance (growth trials), analytical, physio-biochemical, immunological, and molecular (nutrigenomics) approaches. In addition, this group specializes in microencapsulation and feed technology. These capabilities are fundamental for feed development for sustainable aquaculture production.

Fish Nutrition

Fish face up close

ARI’s research faculty are experts in aquatic animal health and provide specialized services to aquaculture industrial partners. ARI can develop diagnostic assays in collaboration with the aquaculture and biotechnology industries. ARI works with partners to complete defined projects in areas such as target animal studies, vaccine efficacy, pathogen challenges, drug approval processes, and species development. Our specialized biocontainment (ABSL3) facility allows work with new and emerging pathogens.

Aquatic Animal Health



ARI provides expertise in breeding, nursery development, and restoration-focused aquaculture. We work with collaborators to develop and scale nursery production methods, manage genetic resources through bio-banking, and conduct production-based research trials. The program also integrates analytical tools, including metabolomics, to evaluate product quality and performance, supporting projects in areas such as strain selection, seeding technologies, offshore production, and restoration applications.

Seaweed

ARI maintains an Aquaculture Experiment Station, which includes an experimental lease site in the Damariscotta River and an experimental shellfish hatchery. ARI can offer research-scale field, hatchery, and grow-out trial services. ARI also offers water quality monitoring with Land Ocean Biogeochemical Observing buoys, capturing an understanding of ocean chemistry in marine environments using a suite of instruments that record parameters such as temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity, chlorophyll, and more.

Field Services

ARI offers water quality testing of marine and freshwater samples as well as water from land-based systems. Our Volatile Organic Compound Lab offers testing for geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol in fish tissue and water using PDMS HiSorb© sorptive extraction with detection and separation of samples by a ThermoScientific Trace 1310 gas chromatograph and an ISQ 7000 Single quadrupole mass spectrometer. The DMC based water quality lab can test for a suite of water quality parameters from fresh and saltwater samples.

Water Quality

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