New money for land-based research targets off-flavor issues, boosting domestic broodstock supply

This is the first time the University of Maine has received congressional funding to address land-based aquaculture specifically in Maine.

Andrew Holmes, a biocontainment research associate and Laurel Anderson, undergraduate research assistant work with Atlantic Salmon in the Aquaculture Research Institute located at the Cooperative Extension Diagnostic & Research Lab in 2021. — Andrew Holmes, a biocontainment research associate and Laurel Anderson, undergraduate research assistant work with Atlantic Salmon in the Aquaculture Research Institute located at the Cooperative Extension Diagnostic & Research Lab in 2021.University of Maine

Rachel Sapin

Published 28 April 2023, 05:00Updated 28 April 2023, 05:00

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