CCAR research associate, Luz Kogson, has begun a one-year trial that will assess the impact of substrate type on the culture of the bloodworm, Glycera dibranchiata. Bloodworms are most commonly used as sport fishing bait, but these worms also have the potential to be used in other aquaculture applications, such as alternative feeds. They are currently the main component of many shrimp broodstock […]
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62 days! That’s how long it took CCAR’s hatchery team to produce over 10,000 eight-gram California yellowtail seed fish for our industry partner, Acadia Harvest. The CCAR is home to 100 yellowtail brood fish. These fish are well cared for and fed only the best diet. This ensures they produce eggs of the highest quality. Throughout the year, our […]
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This week, an enthusiast group of high school students from Village Community School in New York City visited the Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research. The students have been in Maine for the past two weeks participating in a marine technology and science summer camp operated by the non-profit group OceansWide. Based out of the Schoodic […]
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Our first two batches of eggs have hatched! These two batches, consisting of close to 50,000 larvae, have been moved to their new home in yolk-sac incubation. If all goes well, in about 45 days we will move thousands of hungry larval halibut to larger tanks for their first live feeding of artemia. […]
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