Morse, Darling Marine Center cited in Press Herald article on eel aquaculture researcher

The Portland Press Herald published an article about Sara Rademaker, a graduate of Auburn University in Alabama with 12 years of farming and aquaculture experience. Rademaker has rented space from the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) to develop an eel aquaculture system. Although she’s just starting her third year developing the system, she aims to bring her first eels to market this summer, with plans to tap into the local sushi market, according to the article. “She’s already so far ahead of anyone else in the state,” said Dana Morse, a UMaine Cooperative Extension associate professor and researcher based at the DMC. “It’s impressive.” Rademaker also has had help from UMaine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin, the article states. “Little things like that have been so key to doing this in Maine,” she said. “Everyone I have encountered in the state has been really supportive of the effort, from DMR (Department of Marine Resources) to the dealers to Darling.”