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Visit MAA Occupational Standards for Maine Aquaculture Training Providers

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MAA Occupational Standards for Maine Aquaculture Training Providers

The Maine Aquaculture Association has released the first Maine Aquaculture Occupational Standards, which specify the current workforce skills and training needs of Maine’s aquaculture sector. Altogether, four standards have been released, focusing on occupations related to (1) Marine Shellfish and Sea Vegetables; (2) Marine Finfish; (3) Land-Based RAS; and (4) Land-Based Shellfish Hatcheries. A supplementary document, the Maine Shellfish Aquaculture Career Pathways Map, is designed to provide an overview of the most common job types, entry points, and career pathway opportunities in Maine’s shellfish aquaculture sector today.
2021
Maine Aquaculture Association
Visit MAA Maine Aquaculture Business Planning Tools

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MAA Maine Aquaculture Business Planning Tools

The business plan features include short & long-term budget projections & tracking, financial projection and analysis tools, monthly cash flow projections, costs of production analysis, profitability analysis, sensitivity analysis, and breakeven analysis. The production plan offers short & long-term production projections & tracking, data-based growth projections, monthly sales planning & tracking, and a production calendar.
2020
Maine Aquaculture Association
Visit MAA Financial Benchmarking Report

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MAA Financial Benchmarking Report

This first-of-its-kind Maine Aquaculture Industry Financial Benchmarking report presents results from the calculation of a series of benchmarks designed to serve as guidance for prospective Maine shellfish and seaweed producers for use in their business planning, as well as by lenders in the evaluation of loan applications.
2020
Maine Aquaculture Association
Visit Aquaculture in Shared Waters

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Aquaculture in Shared Waters

This training program uses a mix of meetings and field trips/site visits to introduce participants to the issues important in running a successful aquaculture business including: site selection, equipment and husbandry, permitting and regulation, environmental monitoring, marketing and sales, farm management and biosecurity, business planning, and financial management.
2020
Maine Sea Grant
Visit DMR Aquaculture Map

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DMR Aquaculture Map

Displays location and information on aquaculture leases and licenses in Maine along with NSSP water quality information and p90 scores, LPA Health Zones, IFW Essential Habitat Boundaries, historic eelgrass data, conserved land information, and low tide imagery.
2021
Maine DMR Division of Aquaculture
Visit ECSGA Rookie Mistakes

ECSGA Rookie Mistakes

If you have been around this business for a while, you’ve probably watched some of the newcomers make the same mistakes you did when you were getting started. ECSGA Executive Director Bob Rheault decided he would try to think of as many of these common pitfalls as he could to help new growers avoid making the same costly blunders. Through the years he has continued to add to the list.
2021
East Coast Shellfish Growers Association
Visit BlueTrace

BlueTrace

Oyster Tracker, the developer of a software platform that helps oyster farmers manage their farms, has changed its name to BlueTrace and is expanding to mussels, clams, scallops, and geoducks.
2021
BlueTrace
Visit Molluscan Shellfish Handling FDA Pamphlet

Molluscan Shellfish Handling FDA Pamphlet

Basic information on receiving shellfish such as proper temperature; storage and display guidelines; personal hygiene when handling shellfish; and recordkeeping.
2021
U.S. Food and Drug Administration & Department if Health and Human Services
Looking for Business Operations Help?

This is a list of businesses that can help in your business operations including accountants, legal advice (lawyer), insurance, lease bond, business planning, and financing. Lists were compiled by surveying Maine aquaculturists.
2021
Business Operations
Looking for Gear?

This is a list of aquaculture gear and service businesses including oyster gear, mussel gear, seaweed gear, scallop gear, general marine gear, marine services (moorings/diving/boat repair) harvest/processing gear, and water monitoring gear. Lists were compiled by surveying Maine aquaculturists.
2021
Marine Gear Businesses
Visit 2021 Aquaculture Harvest License (to harvest & sell aquacultured product) Application

2021 Aquaculture Harvest License (to harvest & sell aquacultured product) Application

2021 Aquaculture Harvest License (to harvest & sell aquacultured product) Application
2021
Maine DMR Division of Aquaculture
Visit Aquaculture Harvest License FAQ

Aquaculture Harvest License FAQ

All holders of aquaculture leases and LPA licenses are required to hold the Aquaculture Harvest License in order to harvest and sell product from their aquaculture sites, regardless of the species they grow. Commercial harvester's licenses now apply to only wild-harvest product.
2021
Maine DMR Division of Aquaculture
Visit Department of Marine Resources Employee Contact Information

Department of Marine Resources Employee Contact Information

Department of Marine Resources Employee Contact Information
2021
Department of Marine Resources
Visit Guide to Federal Aquaculture Grant Services 2021

Guide to Federal Aquaculture Grant Services 2021

This grant guide was prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in consultation with the Subcommittee on Aquaculture (SCA) under the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). This guide focuses only on grant programs that aquaculture farmers or aquaculture researchers may be eligible for. Updates will include Federal cooperative agreements, contracts, loans, or other direct support programs for aquaculture farmers or (non-federal) aquaculture researchers, for the purpose of aquaculture siting, research, development, and operations.
2021
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service
Visit East Coast Shellfish Hatchery and Nursery Directory

East Coast Shellfish Hatchery and Nursery Directory

This directory is intended to identify shellfish hatcheries and nurseries from along the east coast of the United States in order to serve as a tool for providing a stronger link between shellfish seed suppliers and shellfish farmers. The directory includes contact information for each business, as well as some additional information indicating the type of operation (i.e., hatchery, nursery, or research) and what products they expect to have available.
2021
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Visit Clam Kit: Simple Shellfish Management Tools - Part 1: Introduction & Overview

Clam Kit: Simple Shellfish Management Tools - Part 1: Introduction & Overview

The “Clam Kit” video series shares techniques developed at Downeast Institute to help municipal shellfish management programs enhance their softshell clam flats affordably and effectively. This video gives an overview of clam seed, DEI's hatchery, floating nursery trays, public stock enhancement, DMR lease or LPA, basic husbandry, overwintering, and more.
2021
Downeast Institute
Visit Farming the Sea: The Men and Women of Maine Aquaculture

Farming the Sea: The Men and Women of Maine Aquaculture

A look at the individual Maine farmers who make a living in the growing industry of Aquaculture.
2021
Maine Aquaculture Association & FocusMaine
Visit How to Use The Maine Aquaculturist

How to Use The Maine Aquaculturist

Listen in as Carissa Maurin and Chris Vonderweidt, from the GMRI Aquaculture Program, lead a webinar (originally recorded on 4/13/21) teaching users the basics about The Maine Aquaculturist – a free to use aquaculture business knowledge portal - and how it can be an asset for aquaculture businesses.
2021
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Visit The Maine Shellfish Handbook

The Maine Shellfish Handbook

Provides a comprehensive resource to help managers at the local and state level sustain Maine’s valuable shellfish resources. Includes information on the history and biology of the soft-shell clam, northern quahog, American and European oysters, and blue mussels. There are sections on state resources to address water quality issues and predatory species and tools that municipalities can use to preserve or increase their intertidal shellfish resources.
2021
Maine DMR Bureau of Public Health, Maine Sea Grant
Visit How a High Tech Mussel Farm Harvests 7,000 Pounds of Mussels per Day

How a High Tech Mussel Farm Harvests 7,000 Pounds of Mussels per Day

This video gives a first-hand account of running a mussel farm by Bangs Island Mussels including on the water gear and husbandry and well as shore-side processing. Some highlights are seeding, socking, hauling and stripping machine, de-clumper, size grader, debyssing machine, automatic bagger/weigher/conveyor, and more.
2021
Eater / Bangs Island Mussels
Visit Optimizing Production and Products for Scallop Aquaculture

Optimizing Production and Products for Scallop Aquaculture

Webinar about research on scallop aquaculture production and economics including comparisons of nursery and growout gear: lantern nets, pearl nets, ear hanging, pocket nets, rigid trays, and adhesives; tissue sampling and testing for biotoxins such as saxitoxin and domoic acid; evaluation of fouling communities; surveys of producers to understand economic inputs and outputs such as capital, labor, and yield; environmental data matched with growth data to better understand good scallop-farming sites.
2021
Maine Sea Grant
Visit Scallop Research Collaborative

Scallop Research Collaborative

As part of the Scallop Research Collaborative, we're creating a public database of scallop research happening throughout the state of Maine. Our goal is to create a resource that brings together research in both wild harvest and aquaculture scallops, to increase transparency and communication about research, and to create new opportunities for collaboration.
2021
Aquaculture Research Institute
Visit Maine Department of Marine Resources Grants and RFPs

Maine Department of Marine Resources Grants and RFPs

List of Grants and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) on the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) website. These include opportunities in Coastal Access & Working Waterfronts, Coastal Community Planning, and Outreach & Education.
2021
Maine Department of Marine Resources
Recommendations for LPA Mooring Systems and Designs

When submitting a LPA application one of the details that can make or break your approval is your mooring system. Understanding and installing moorings that work for the load that aquaculture gear generates is crucial and creating an accurate and readable mooring system design in your application is key for your approval.
2021
Casco Marine, LLC
Visit Bird Interactions with Shellfish Aquaculture

Bird Interactions with Shellfish Aquaculture

There are several ways in which birds interact with shellfish aquaculture. Birds can cause significant damage to crops through predation. Some birds fall into the category of protected resources and farmers have been variously accused of interfering with foraging, (either attracting or disturbing or both) and interfering with hunting. Birds can be attracted to aquaculture structures for roosting or foraging and their guano can impact water quality and trigger the need for growers to develop management plans under the National Shellfish Sanitation Plan.
2021
Maine DMR Bureau of Public Health
Visit Online Boating Safety Course

Online Boating Safety Course

Free online boating safety course that is recognized by the U.S. Coast Guard, approved by NASBLA and the Maine state boating license agency. Complete the course in three steps: enroll in a Boating Safety Course from the course catalog, study and pass the free Boating Safety Course, and print out your certificate of completion.
2021
Boat U.S. Foundation
Industry Perspective

The Basics on Aquaculture Mooring Systems

When submitting a LPA or Lease application one of the details that you might brush over is your mooring system. A lack of research in this area can lead to gear breaking free causing significant damage and loss of your crop. Understanding and installing moorings that work for the load that aquaculture gear generates is crucial.

Capt. Eric Oransky
2021
Visit The Algae Foundation

The Algae Foundation

Providing and promoting lifelong education and learning opportunities for students and professionals, the Algae Foundation seeks to demystify algae by providing unique Algae Academy education modules to bring algae into the classroom, collegiate level courses to prepare the next generation of bioeconomy professionals, and teacher trainings to enhance the science capabilities of our educators.
2021
The Algae Foundation

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Aquaculture Harvest License FAQ

Department of Marine Resources Employee Contact Information

Guide to Federal Aquaculture Grant Services 2021

East Coast Shellfish Hatchery and Nursery Directory

Clam Kit: Simple Shellfish Management Tools - Part 1: Introduction & Overview

Farming the Sea: The Men and Women of Maine Aquaculture

How to Use The Maine Aquaculturist

The Maine Shellfish Handbook

How a High Tech Mussel Farm Harvests 7,000 Pounds of Mussels per Day

Optimizing Production and Products for Scallop Aquaculture

Scallop Research Collaborative

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BlueTrace

Molluscan Shellfish Handling FDA Pamphlet

Looking for Business Operations Help?

Looking for Gear?

2021 Aquaculture Harvest License (to harvest & sell aquacultured product) Application

Aquaculture Harvest License FAQ

Department of Marine Resources Employee Contact Information

Guide to Federal Aquaculture Grant Services 2021

East Coast Shellfish Hatchery and Nursery Directory

Clam Kit: Simple Shellfish Management Tools - Part 1: Introduction & Overview

Farming the Sea: The Men and Women of Maine Aquaculture

How to Use The Maine Aquaculturist

The Maine Shellfish Handbook

How a High Tech Mussel Farm Harvests 7,000 Pounds of Mussels per Day

Optimizing Production and Products for Scallop Aquaculture

Scallop Research Collaborative

Maine Department of Marine Resources Grants and RFPs

Recommendations for LPA Mooring Systems and Designs

Bird Interactions with Shellfish Aquaculture

Online Boating Safety Course

The Basics on Aquaculture Mooring Systems

The Algae Foundation