Steve Eddy

Stephen D. (Steve) Eddy Jr. is the Director of UMaine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR).

The CCAR, located on Taunton Bay in Franklin, is an aquaculture R&D facility and
business incubator that has worked with companies since 1999 and on a wide
range of species including sea urchins, marine polychaetes, halibut, lumpfish, eels, salmon,
California yellowtail, and more. Steve was hired as CCAR biologist in 2000 and assumed the
role of Director in 2016.

Prior to CCAR, Steve worked as a biologist at a commercial summer flounder hatchery in New Hampshire
and a striped bass aquaculture company in Massachusetts. This followed a three-year stint working for the
Environmental Conservation Division of NOAA Fisheries in Seattle, and eight years working as
a foreign and domestic fishing observer and coordinator in the Bering Sea. Steve grew up in
Vermont and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1985, the University of New
Hampshire in 2000, and obtained a graduate certificate in Food and Nutrition from the
University of Maine in 2013.