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Visit Biofouling Control Strategies: A Field Guide for Maryland Oyster Growers

Biofouling Control Strategies: A Field Guide for Maryland Oyster Growers

Biofouling, or plants and animals that colonize oysters and/or cages, can affect profitability. This handbook reviews macroalgae, cushion moss, encrusting bryozoan, barnacles, false mussels, hooked mussels, slipper limpet, ghost anemone, sea squirts, boring sponge, red beard sponge, clam worms, mud worms, & whipworms.
2020
Maryland Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Visit Potential Gear Coatings as a Mitigation Technique for Invertebrate Predators of Aquacultured Eastern Oysters (Crassostrea virginica)

Potential Gear Coatings as a Mitigation Technique for Invertebrate Predators of Aquacultured Eastern Oysters (Crassostrea virginica)

This project aimed to identify a gear coating that deters and mitigates predation by oyster drills (Urosalpinx cinerea) and starfish (Asterias rubens) on aquaculture eastern oysters. Identifying potential strategies to mitigate starfish and oyster drill snail predation on eastern oysters could increase oyster survival, which would increase yield and revenue.
2020
Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center
Visit Eastern Oyster Production in Maine: A Basic Overview

Eastern Oyster Production in Maine: A Basic Overview

An overview of oyster production techniques including nursery and husbandry, common gear used, and oyster biology.
2020
Maine Sea Grant
Visit Research, Development and Education Priorities for the Aquaculture Sector in Maine

Research, Development and Education Priorities for the Aquaculture Sector in Maine

This report is based on the research priorities survey conducted in June 2019 of Maine’s aquaculture community and is compared with surveys from 2012 and 2016 to look at trends. There have been some changes in the prioritization of needs since 2016, but many of the same research, development, and education (R&D&E) needs persist and remain unaddressed. As expected, there are different R&D&E priorities for different aquaculture sectors.
2020
Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center
Visit Earn Your Captain's License

Earn Your Captain's License

Atlantic Captain’s Academy offers a variety of Coast Guard approved courses for Coast Guard captain’s license candidates.
2020
Atlantic Captain’s Academy
Visit Kennebec River Biosciences

Kennebec River Biosciences

A global fish and shellfish health lab, we offer you top-quality diagnostics, import/export inspections, and veterinary solutions from consultation to custom vaccines.
2020
Kennebec River Biosciences
Visit The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals

In-depth paper on the implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
2018
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Visit Does a Flip-Bag System Produce a Better Eastern Oyster?

Does a Flip-Bag System Produce a Better Eastern Oyster?

Reviews tide–flipped bags or baskets ability to produce a more attractive and commercially valuable Eastern oyster for the half–shell market. Found that flip-bag oysters grow slower but had a wider fan, deeper cup, heavier shell, yielded more meat, were less fouled, and required less labor to maintain.
2017
East Coast Shellfish Growers Association, Roger Williams University
Visit Shellfish Biosecurity: Risks, Management & Best Practices Bivalve Shellfish Physiology, Pathogens, Diseases

Shellfish Biosecurity: Risks, Management & Best Practices Bivalve Shellfish Physiology, Pathogens, Diseases

Presentation on oyster pathogens and diseases such as MSX, SSO, dermo, and Vibrio, testing protocols, long-term management, oyster predators & pests, the difference bewteen infection and disease, disese prevention, biosecurity, risk evaluation, pathogen surveillance, and zonation.
2016
Kennebec River Biosciences
Visit Maine Farmed Shellfish Market Analysis

Maine Farmed Shellfish Market Analysis

A data-driven, quantitative market assessment that informs industry leaders and business owners about the potential scale and scope of markets for farmed shellfish and to facilitate strategic growth in the industry.
2016
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, The Hale Group LTD
Visit Maine Seafood Study

Maine Seafood Study

A study the researched and inventoried the seasonality, sources, and market utilization of locally produced seafood within the state and help educate food consumers at many different levels about the opportunities for gaining access to Maine seafood.
2015
Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
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 A Comparison of Bottom and Floating Gear for Growing American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Southeastern Massachusetts

A Comparison of Bottom and Floating Gear for Growing American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Southeastern Massachusetts

A study compared how oysters grew in floating cages versus bottom cages that determined that generally oysters grew faster and survival and condition index were higher in floating gear.
2014
Woods Hole Sea Grant, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension
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 Kelp Farming Manual: A Guide to the Processing, Techniques, and Equipment for Farming Kelp in New England Waters

Kelp Farming Manual: A Guide to the Processing, Techniques, and Equipment for Farming Kelp in New England Waters

An in-depth guide on kelp farming including how to set up a farm, the application process, nursery set-up, maintaining cultures, and farm site operations.
2013
Ocean Approved
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 Best Management Practices Template

Best Management Practices Template

Use this to create your own farm-specific Best Management Practices (BMP) document use this template, a Microsoft Excel file in macro format.
2010
East Coast Shellfish Growers Association
Visit Intertidal Lentz System Bag Culture of Oysters

Intertidal Lentz System Bag Culture of Oysters

The intent of the Lentz system is to grow a superior quality oyster while utilizing less labor that will enable significant operation cost reduction and this presentation describes a large trial grow out study of this system.
2010
Alaska Sea Grant
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 Aquaculture Systems for the Northeast

Aquaculture Systems for the Northeast

Overview of popular finfish and shellfish aquaculture systems (husbandry & gear) used in the northeast including bottom culture, near bottom culture, water column culture, surface culture, hatchery land-based systems.
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

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Biofouling Control Strategies: A Field Guide for Maryland Oyster Growers

Potential Gear Coatings as a Mitigation Technique for Invertebrate Predators of Aquacultured Eastern Oysters (Crassostrea virginica)

Eastern Oyster Production in Maine: A Basic Overview

Research, Development and Education Priorities for the Aquaculture Sector in Maine

Earn Your Captain's License

Kennebec River Biosciences

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals

Does a Flip-Bag System Produce a Better Eastern Oyster?

Shellfish Biosecurity: Risks, Management & Best Practices Bivalve Shellfish Physiology, Pathogens, Diseases

Maine Farmed Shellfish Market Analysis

Maine Seafood Study

Mud Blister Worms and Oyster Aquaculture

A Comparison of Bottom and Floating Gear for Growing American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Southeastern Massachusetts

Northeastern U.S. Aquaculture Management Guide: A manual for the identification and management of aquaculture production hazards

Dead and Dying Shellfish: What to Do?

Oyster Diseases of the Chesapeake Bay: Dermo and MSX Fact Sheet

Kelp Farming Manual: A Guide to the Processing, Techniques, and Equipment for Farming Kelp in New England Waters

Harmful Algae and Marine Aquaculture in the Northeastern United States

Best Management Practices Template

Intertidal Lentz System Bag Culture of Oysters

Exploring Options to Reduce Polydora Infestations on Maine Oyster Farms

Aquaculture Systems for the Northeast

Juvenile Oyster Disease of Eastern Oysters

Factors Affecting Health of the Oyster

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Biofouling Control Strategies: A Field Guide for Maryland Oyster Growers

Potential Gear Coatings as a Mitigation Technique for Invertebrate Predators of Aquacultured Eastern Oysters (Crassostrea virginica)

Eastern Oyster Production in Maine: A Basic Overview

Research, Development and Education Priorities for the Aquaculture Sector in Maine

Earn Your Captain's License

Kennebec River Biosciences

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals

Does a Flip-Bag System Produce a Better Eastern Oyster?

Shellfish Biosecurity: Risks, Management & Best Practices Bivalve Shellfish Physiology, Pathogens, Diseases

Maine Farmed Shellfish Market Analysis

Maine Seafood Study

Mud Blister Worms and Oyster Aquaculture

A Comparison of Bottom and Floating Gear for Growing American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Southeastern Massachusetts

Northeastern U.S. Aquaculture Management Guide: A manual for the identification and management of aquaculture production hazards

Dead and Dying Shellfish: What to Do?

Oyster Diseases of the Chesapeake Bay: Dermo and MSX Fact Sheet

Kelp Farming Manual: A Guide to the Processing, Techniques, and Equipment for Farming Kelp in New England Waters

Harmful Algae and Marine Aquaculture in the Northeastern United States

Best Management Practices Template

Intertidal Lentz System Bag Culture of Oysters

Exploring Options to Reduce Polydora Infestations on Maine Oyster Farms

Aquaculture Systems for the Northeast

Juvenile Oyster Disease of Eastern Oysters

Factors Affecting Health of the Oyster