Gulf Seafood Institute representatives recently completed a tour of Maine’s aquaculture industry facilities with the hope of learning more about how they can jumpstart a similar aquaculture hub in the Gulf of Mexico.
By traveling to Maine, the two dozen fishermen, scientists and state officials were able to explore real-world examples of successful aquaculture companies and seafood farmers, GSI said in a press release. Among the facilities visited by the group were Cooke Aquaculture’s Atlantic salmon hatchery and the company’s offshore Atlantic salmon pens in East Machias, the USDA Coldwater Aquaculture Research Facility and the University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin, and the Hollander and de Koning mussel processing plant in Trenton, according to the Ellsworth American…
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