Seaweed

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 […]

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 […]

Economic Impact Assessment of the Maine Aquaculture Sector

Lead PI: Christian Brayden PI Email: christian@maineaqua.org Co-PI: Sebastian Belle Project Team: Christian Brayden, Sebastian Belle, Annie Langston, Chris Davis, hired consultant Abstract: This study, led by the Maine Aquaculture Association’s (MAA) Christian Brayden and Sebastian Belle, will source data from the Department of Marine Resources and a survey of Maine aquaculture producers to collect production, financial, and labor […]

Maine Seaweed Consumer preferences

Lead PI: Christian Brayden PI Email: christian@maineaqua.org Co-PI: Sebastian Belle Abstract: The Maine Aquaculture Association (MAA) will conduct a consumer preferences survey pertaining to seaweed processing and product development. The work is a direct response to the roadmap action item “Increase funding for market research on aquaculture products, including processing, distribution, product development, and customer […]