Biology of aquaculture species

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 […]

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 […]

Scallop Aquaculture Initiative

Lead PI: Desmond Fitzgerald Project Team: Hugh Cowperthwaite, Blaine Grimes, Jake Ward, Jonathan Labaree, Gayle Zydlewski, Mike Bonney Abstract: The Gulf of Maine Research Institute, University of Maine, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., and the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center plan to partner with Maine private farmers and coastal communities to look at the status of scallop aquaculture in […]

Understanding reproductive cycles and larval dynamics in cultured and wild populations of Placopecten magellanicus in Maine

Lead PI: Phoebe Jekielek Co-PI: Madison Maier Project Team: Marsden Brewer, Hannah Twombly, Connor O’Neill, Bobby Brewer Abstract: As successful shellfish culture is comprised of seed collection, grow out, and harvest, reliance on a variable wild set without hatchery supply is a potential bottleneck for consistent culture production in the emerging scallop aquaculture industry in […]

A tagging study to understand sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) growth and movement in the Lower Penobscot Bay rotational management area

Lead PI: Phoebe Jekielek Co-PI: Amber Lisi Project Team: Hurricane Island, ME Department of Marine Resources Abstract: This project will further several priorities of the Department of Marine Resources’s scallop program and inform parallel work by Hurricane Island assessing local wild scallop populations and rotational closed areas. It will also provide comparative wild scallop growth […]

Effect of Fear to be Eaten by Predators on Commercially Important Shellfish Species; and Differential Stress Tolerance in Multiple Populations of Green Crabs

Project Description The objective of this project is to characterize population-specific stress tolerance and destructiveness of green crabs from four genetically different populations, and to quantify and identify cellular mechanism of altered energy use in clams when exposed to a predator. The green crab, Carcinus maenas, is a globally invasive species native to Europe. It […]

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