Maine Sea Grant

Christopher Davis Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center The annual Northeast Aquaculture Conference & Exposition was held jointly with the 37th Milford Aquaculture Seminar in Providence, Rhode Island in January 2017. NACE was created in 1998 by the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center with the goal of bringing together producers, service providers, vendors, researchers, students, and managers from […]

Skylar Bayer University of Maine Darling Marine Center 193 Clark’s Cove Road Walpole, ME 04573 617.771.5173 Once a large fishery in Maine, scallop populations are now depleted. As free spawners, scallop populations may not be dense enough to achieve the high fertilization rates necessary to guarantee reproduction. Understanding the efficacy of area closures in rebuilding […]

Sara Rademaker American Unagi, LLC Maine has unique access to juvenile wild American eels (glass eels or elvers), which support a global eel aquaculture industry. Maine’s multimillion dollar elver fishery currently ships its glass eels to farms in Asia. Growing out glass eels to market size here can increase the value of eels nine-fold. In […]

Aaron Pastor Macro Maine, Inc. PO Box 11266 Portland, Maine 04104 Seeing a timely need to create awareness of the Maine seaweed/aquaculture industries and the benefits for human health, economy, and ocean ecology, the Maine Seaweed Festival, was created as a free outdoor festival that promotes and highlights Maine seaweed and aquaculture innovation. Local artists, entertainers, […]

Richard Wahle School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Email Richard Wahle Skylar Bayer School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Email Skylar Bayer Peter Countway Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Email Peter Countway The giant sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) is an incredibly valuable seafood species harvested in the Gulf of Maine. The scallop is […]

Dwayne Shaw Downeast Salmon Federation 207.483.4336 info@mainesalmonrivers.org On the third Friday in April, the Downeast Salmon Federation hosts a community smelt fry to celebrate spring and the annual harvest of rainbow smelt, a native sea-run fish. Friends, family, and visitors gather next to the Wild Salmon Resource Center on the banks of the Pleasant River. […]

Tyler Carrier University of Maine 802.522.9847 tyler.carrier@maine.edu Tyler Carrier was listening to a podcast about harmful algal blooms on the West Coast, where researchers were finding sea urchins washing ashore. He wondered whether juvenile stages of urchins and other echinoderms might be affected by harmful algae, which have become more frequent and intense in the […]

Linda Mercer Maine Department of Marine Resources The purpose of this one-day conference was to exchange information about non-native green crabs and their impacts on Maine's coastal and marine resources, learn about different approaches for green crab control, and discuss future directions for management and research. Visit the summit page for more information.  

Anna Bass University of New England 207.602.2481 Like other ground or bottom-dwelling fish such as cod, haddock, and flounder, hake is a popular food fish. The name “hake” describes a number of different species—red, white, and long-finned hake, which are more closely related to cod, and silver hake or whiting—yet markets and menus typically just use […]