Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research

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 […]

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 […]

Researchers from the University of Maine are featured in a recently published article in “Food Technology” for their work on developing new food products from aquaculture.  The article focuses on work being done with sea vegetables by UMO researchers Susan Brawley, Denise Skonberg, Balunkeswar Nayak, and Angela Myracle.  Later in the article, Steve Eddy discusses […]

During the past month we have had the privilege of hosting a student from the Center of Scientific Research and Superior Education (CICESE) http://eng.cicese.edu.mx/, located in Baja California, Mexico.  Diana Maria Cuesta Gomez originally hails from Bogota, Columbia and is attending CICESE on a scholarship, which includes a one month academic stay at another institution.  […]

For the 6th year in a row incoming freshmen biology students visited the CCAR as part of their introduction to the University of Maine.  The tour is organized by Dr. Farahad Dastoor, School of Biology and Ecology.  The students had just spent two days at the nearby Schoodic Education and Research Center  https://www.nps.gov/acad/serc.htm for orientation […]

Sylvia Earle and Tap Pryor, who have both had long and distinguished careers in marine sciences, exploration and innovation, crossed paths again at CCAR on July 14.  Dr. Earle led the first all-female team of aquanauts, and on a notable deep ocean dive in 1979 near Oahu she set the depth record by exploring the […]

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 […]

A new film titled “The Working Waterfront – American Aquaculture in the 21st Century” was recently posted on YouTube (viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgtS4v9WBM).  The video was commissioned by the Soy Aquaculture Alliance and the United Soybean Board to educate the public about recent advances in aquaculture in the United States.  The film was produced by Living […]

Only a few hatcheries in the world can grow halibut, including the CCAR here in Maine.  In many years world hatchery supply falls short of industry demand.  This is because growing halibut to the 5 gram juvenile size from eggs is a lengthy and intricate process, with multiple stages where many things can (and do!) […]

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.         […]