Newspaper Profile of Tropical Fish Company
The Working Waterfront newspaper has a profile of the Maine company Sea & Reef Aquaculture, a tropical fish-breeding business which was founded by Soren Hansen and Chad Callan when they were were UMaine graduate students.The article recounts how Hansen started a project to raise clownfish while he was working on a master’s degree and had help from Prof. David Townsend of the UMaine School of Marine Sciences, and Jake Ward, who is UMaine’s assistant vice president for research, economic development and governmental relations. The company was first located at UMaine’s Aquaculture Research Center in Orono and has since moved to UMaine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture in Franklin.
Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777