Visit Growing Your Aquaculture Business: Expanding or Diversifying Growing Your Aquaculture Business: Expanding or Diversifying Dr. Carole Engle, a specialist in aquaculture economics, discusses growing your aquaculture businesses: whether should you expand or diversify and what conditions should you consider doing so. This will help you determine if is it the right time to expand your business, increase production, or move into new markets. 2015 Engle-Stone Aquatic$ LLC, National Aquaculture Association
Visit The Business of Aquaculture The Business of Aquaculture Reviews the keys to running a successful business; the four P's of marketing, wholesale distributors, risks, and sales. 2015 Aquaculture in Shared Waters
Visit Mud Blister Worms and Oyster Aquaculture Mud Blister Worms and Oyster Aquaculture Report on the mud blister polychaete worm, Polydora websteri, including a description, life history, settlement, burrowing, treatments, and biosecurity. 2015 Maine Sea Grant, University of Maine
Visit Cash-Flow Based Planning for Aquaculture Businesses Cash-Flow Based Planning for Aquaculture Businesses Dr. Carole Engle, a specialist in aquaculture economics, discusses cash-flow for aquaculture businesses, how to maintain a positive cash-flow position, and common pitfalls in developing a cash-flow budgeting. 2014 Engle-Stone Aquatic$ LLC, National Aquaculture Association
Visit Guide to Federal Aquaculture Programs and Services Guide to Federal Aquaculture Programs and Services Developed to describe all Federal programs and activities that directly or indirectly encourage, support, or assist U.S. aquaculture. 2014 Interagency Working Group on Aquaculture
Visit Northeastern U.S. Aquaculture Management Guide: A manual for the identification and management of aquaculture production hazards Northeastern U.S. Aquaculture Management Guide: A manual for the identification and management of aquaculture production hazards Intended to help prospective farmers to identify, record, monitor, and manage production hazards, and ultimately minimize production-related risk. Discusses types of risk in aquaculture, record keeping, environmental conditions, biofouling organisms, predators, diseases, parasites, invasive species, and operational procedures. 2014 Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center, USDA
Visit Dead and Dying Shellfish: What to Do? Dead and Dying Shellfish: What to Do? Fact sheet designed to try to improve the growers knowledge on the process to contact a professional who can examine dead or dying shellfish to determine the cause and how to get the shellfish to them for analysis. 2013 Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Visit Oyster Diseases of the Chesapeake Bay: Dermo and MSX Fact Sheet Oyster Diseases of the Chesapeake Bay: Dermo and MSX Fact Sheet Fact sheet on Dermo disease, Perkinsus marinus, and MSX disease, Haplosporidium nelsoni, including geographic distribution, history, biology, epizootiology, environmental influences, control measures, and diagnostic methods. 2013 Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Visit Small-Scale Cultchless Oyster Crop Budget Small-Scale Cultchless Oyster Crop Budget General budget guidelines for growers marketing 50,000 - 250,000 oyster per year. 2012 Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Visit Assessing the Financial Position of an Aquaculture Business: Using Balance Sheets Assessing the Financial Position of an Aquaculture Business: Using Balance Sheets A critical long-term decision aquaculturists must make is to determine whether the business can generate enough value over time to pay off its debts. The appropriate financial statement for doing this is the balance sheet. The balance sheet is divided into two main categories: assets and liabilities. The balance sheet is structured by dividing assets and liabilities into one of two time periods: current and noncurrent. This publication, written by Dr. Carole Engle, a specialist in aquaculture economics, will help you identify the financial strengths and weaknesses of your business using balance sheets. 2012 Southern Regional Aquaculture Center
Visit Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment Focuses primarily on the environmental sustainability of shellfish aquaculture including resource enhancement, habitat restoration, eutrophication, the impacts of farms on water quality, and harvest methods. 2011 Connecticut Sea Grant
Visit Harmful Algae and Marine Aquaculture in the Northeastern United States Harmful Algae and Marine Aquaculture in the Northeastern United States Reviews harmful algae blooms including conditions for biotoxin formation, detection, management, and common types of HAB's in the northeast. 2010 Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Visit Exploring Options to Reduce Polydora Infestations on Maine Oyster Farms Exploring Options to Reduce Polydora Infestations on Maine Oyster Farms Explores husbandry and equipment solutions to infestations of Polydora websteri, a marine polychaete worm, on a Maine oyster farm. 2010 Maine Sea Grant
Visit Planning for Success in Your Aquaculture Business Planning for Success in Your Aquaculture Business Reviews business management skills, such as finance, record keeping, marketing, and personnel management. More aquaculture businesses fail because of poor management than poor production practices. 2008 Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Visit Aquaculture Risk Management Aquaculture Risk Management Aquaculture risk management fact sheet covering the types of risks aquaculturists deal with and how to manage these risks include both insurance and non-insurance options. 2008 Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Visit Juvenile Oyster Disease of Eastern Oysters Juvenile Oyster Disease of Eastern Oysters Fact sheet on juvenile oyster disease (JOD) including background on the disease and etiological agent, known geographical range, host species, epizootiology, signs of disease, diagnostic procedures, procedures for transportation, and storage of samples. 2004 Rutgers University
Visit Factors Affecting Health of the Oyster Factors Affecting Health of the Oyster Fact sheet on factors causing pathological changes in oysters, categories of bivalve pathology, preventative care information, and factors regulating oyster stock density. 2000 Connecticut Department of Agriculture
Visit Roseovarius Oyster Disease Roseovarius Oyster Disease Fact sheet on roseovarius oyster disease (ROD), previously known as juvenile oyster disease (JOD) including infection, mortality, resistance, and how to determine if an oyster is infected. 2000 Connecticut Department of Agriculture
Visit MSX Disease MSX Disease Fact sheet on MSX, caused by a single‐celled Protozoan parasite Haplosporidium nelsoni, including transmission, history, epizootic, resistance, infection, mortality, and management. 2000 Connecticut Department of Agriculture
Visit QPX Disease QPX Disease Fact sheet on QPX (Quahog Parasite Unknown) a Protozoan parasite of hard clams, Mercenaria mercenaria, including history, infection and mortality, guidelines for management, and how to determine if hard clams are infected. 2000 Connecticut Department of Agriculture
Visit Dermo Disease Dermo Disease Fact sheet on dermo disease, caused by a single‐celled Protozoan parasite Perkinsus marinus, including transmission, environmental factors, stages of the infection, and how to determine if oysters are infected. 2000 Connecticut Department of Agriculture
Visit A Guide to Bivalve Diseases for Aquaculturists in the Northeastern U.S. A Guide to Bivalve Diseases for Aquaculturists in the Northeastern U.S. Reviews common diseases of marine bivalves such as MSX, dermo, juvenile oyster disease, bonamiasis, hemic neoplasia, gonadal neoplasia, and QPX, and available means for preventing or minimizing their impacts. 1999 Maine Sea Grant
Visit History and impact of MSX and Dermo Diseases on Oyster Stocks in the Northeast Region History and impact of MSX and Dermo Diseases on Oyster Stocks in the Northeast Region In-depth review of the natural history and distribution, transmission, diagnostic methods, environmental influences, control measures, and management recommendations for MSX disease and dermo disease on oyster stocks. 1993 Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center