Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research

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.         […]

Ten Acadia Harvest California Yellowtail departed CCAR yesterday to be featured in Wegman’s Sushi Festival in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts this weekend.  The fish looked great and will be the freshest yellowtail on the display table (and perhaps the only fish being locally sourced in New England).  The celebration of sushi  brings the excitement of Tokyo’s […]

The normal spawning season for halibut in the North Atlantic is in late spring, but because our stock is held in indoor tanks we need to synchronize their breeding season by controlling temperature and photoperiod.   We have over 140 brood stock fish and many of these are now in spawning condition.  For the next two […]

Acadia Harvest vaccinated 2,300 California yellowtail in preparation for moving the fish to a new tank system.  The juvenile fish were hatched  in the CCAR hatchery in July 2015 and for the past few months the company has been growing them in the Unit 3 nursery production system.  The stock will soon  be transferred to […]