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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 US Army Corps of Engineers General Permit Documents

US Army Corps of Engineers General Permit Documents

A general permit for activities subject to Corps jurisdiction in waters of the U.S. within the boundaries of the State of Maine.
2020
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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 Aquaculture Lease/LPA Applications and Forms

Aquaculture Lease/LPA Applications and Forms

Descriptions of each aquaculture lease and license type. All applications must be submitted using these forms.
2020
Maine DMR Division of Aquaculture
Visit What is Aquaculture?

What is Aquaculture?

Includes the common definition and the legal definition of aquaculture in Maine.
2020
Maine DMR Division of Aquaculture
Visit Conduct of Aquaculture Lease Hearings

Conduct of Aquaculture Lease Hearings

Fact sheet on aquaculture lease hearings which are an adjudicatory hearing. It also includes the criteria for issuing aquaculture leases.
2020
Maine DMR Division of Aquaculture
Visit DMR Aquaculture in Maine

DMR Aquaculture in Maine

Designed to provide the public, applicants, and leaseholders with useful and accurate information about marine aquaculture in Maine.
2020
Maine DMR Division of Aquaculture
Visit Write a Business Plan

Write a Business Plan

Writing a strong business plan is important for any company as it provides a roadmap to success. The most important reason for writing a solid business plan is that it demonstrates to investors, financial institutions, and other lenders that you have a cohesive vision for your company.
2020
Maine Technology Institute
Visit Decision Criteria For Issuing Aquaculture Leases

Decision Criteria For Issuing Aquaculture Leases

At aquaculture lease hearings, Maine DMR will receive evidence relating to the legal criteria upon which it must base its decision on whether to grant the lease. The criteria for granting a standard or experimental aquaculture lease that the lease must not unreasonably interfere with are listed here.
2019
Maine DMR Division of Aquaculture
Visit FAQs- Public Lease Hearing

FAQs- Public Lease Hearing

Explains how to participate in a hearing, testimony, questions, public support or opposition, intervenor, and after the hearing.
2019
Maine DMR Division of Aquaculture
Visit Leasing Options

Leasing Options

A general table outlining the various permitting/leasing options in order to conduct aquaculture in Maine waters.
2017
Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center
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 Site Selection

Site Selection

Detailed look into why site selection is so important including, biological requirements, physical characteristics, as well as social & regulatory factors.
2016
Aquaculture in Shared Waters
Visit Getting to Know Your Water

Getting to Know Your Water

Provides a summary of direct and indirect environmental factors that may affect your site selection for your marine aquaculture business.
2016
Aquaculture in Shared Waters
Visit Husbandry

Husbandry

Good husbandry is critical to success and this gives a general overview of its importance.
2016
Aquaculture in Shared Waters
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 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 Shell GIS

Shell GIS

ShellGIS is a desktop-based software tool that, for the choice of 14-commonly cultured shellfish species, enables dynamic predictions of shellfish production, environmental effects, and profitability according to culture practice and site selection within a given GIS domain.
2014
ShellGIS
Visit Shellfish Sanitation & HACCP Guidelines

Shellfish Sanitation & HACCP Guidelines

This book was designed with Certified Shellfish Dealers in mind and gives detailed information about HACCP Plans (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point), monitoring of Daily Sanitation practices, SSOP (Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures), Tags, Tagging & Transportation of Shellstock, Wet Storage Standard Operating Procedure, and more.
2007
Maine DMR Bureau of Public Health
Visit Shellfish Handling, Tagging, and Labeling

Shellfish Handling, Tagging, and Labeling

Slideshow summarizing the regulations for shellstock and shucked shellfish handling, sanitation, tagging, and labeling for the state of Maine
2004
Maine DMR Bureau of Public Health
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

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US Army Corps of Engineers General Permit Documents

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Conduct of Aquaculture Lease Hearings

DMR Aquaculture in Maine

Write a Business Plan

Decision Criteria For Issuing Aquaculture Leases

FAQs- Public Lease Hearing

Leasing Options

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

Site Selection

Getting to Know Your Water

Husbandry

The Business of Aquaculture

Maine Seafood Study

Shell GIS

Shellfish Sanitation & HACCP Guidelines

Shellfish Handling, Tagging, and Labeling

A Guide to Bivalve Diseases for Aquaculturists in the Northeastern U.S.