economic

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 […]

Sustainable Aquaculture Workforce and Innovation Center

Lead PI: Deborah Bouchard PI Email: deborah.bouchard@maine.edu Co-PI: Meggan Dwyer Project Team: Deborah Bouchard, Meggan Dwyer, Heather Hamlin, Robert Harrington, Matt Hawkyard Abstract: The University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute proposes to build a state-of-the-art, 15,000-square-foot aquaculture workforce training and commercialization facility in Orono. The Sustainable Aquaculture Workforce and Innovation Center will ﬁll a gap […]

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 […]