Safe and Sustainable Fisheries and Seafood Supply

Eat your greens: Evaluating microalgae supplemented feeds for sablefish nutrition and growth
Finfish aquaculture, which makes up the largest portion of the aquaculture industry, faces certain hurdles in maintaining sustainability as it continues to expand.

Vegetative Propagation of Pyropia to Advance the West Coast Nori Industry
The global production and harvest of seaweeds is now a $7 billion-dollar industry and is expected to grow to $22.1 billion dollars by 2024.

Converting under-utilized microalgal co-product into value-added ingredient for cost-viable, fish-free aquafeed for rainbow trout
With growing demand for farmed fish as a more sustainable source of protein for the planet, there is increasing attention to the sustainability of feed used in aquaculture production.

Developing triploid mussel larvae for farming
Blue mussels are one of the major aquaculture crops around the world and in the US, and about 80% of mussels consumed are grown through aquaculture. Mussels are typically harvested when their gonad

Improving the siting and practices of offshore finfish farms in the Southern California Bight by incorporating historical and modern data from islands near existing fish pens
Despite strong interests in developing offshore finfish aquaculture in California, no offshore farms exist.

Laminaria farlowii, a new species for sustainable aquaculture in California: nursery methods, climate change resilience and preliminary market assessment with outreach through the California Seaweed Fair
Seaweed aquaculture is a growing industry in the United States and worldwide.

Land-based echinoculture in California: Developing a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) and protocol for the enhancement of purple urchin roe
In the last ten years, overgrowths of purple sea urchins along the coast of California have led to “urchin barrens” where urchins have devoured the kelp and turned the kelp forest into a degraded h

Development of techniques for the cultivation of monkeyface pricklebacks as a sustainable alternative to unagi
Unagi, or freshwater eel (Anguilla japonica and other Anguilla species), is extremely popular in sushi restaurants and Asian cuisine and has an annual market value of well over $1

Revitalizing the fleet: Training the next generation for commercial fishing
The California Commercial Fishing Apprenticeship Program prepares the next generation for a career in commercial fishing.

California Commercial Fishing Apprenticeship Program Manual
This manual introduces commercial fishermen sponsors and apprentices to the California Sea Grant Commercial Fishing Apprenticeship Program, incl