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A Boost For Aquaculture: Tools To Identify Suitable Sites for Farming Seafood

For those looking to launch an ocean-based aquaculture project, finding both available and suitable space to safely farm seafood can be a daunting challenge, especially in densely populated locations like Southern California

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A Celebration of Seaweed

California Sea Grant Helps Bring Seaweed To The Table

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Fort Bragg has the best kind of blues

Collaborative efforts to develop a new “blue economy” include a new California Sea Grant extension fellow

Oyster bags in Tomales Bay. Courtesy of Jonathan MacKay.

The birth of the California Current Acidification Network

When oyster larvae started dying in record numbers, California Sea Grant jumped into action

Fishing boats in Santa Barbara.

Sharing Ocean Space to Boost Seafood Production

California Sea Grant’s New Website Offers Solutions For Shrinking America’s Seafood Deficit

People gathered around a sturgeon. Dr. Serge I. Doroshov (center). Photo Courtesy of Randy Lovell.

Roe Crops: How Sacramento Became the Caviar Capital of the U.S.

Bolstered by steady funding assistance from California Sea Grant, California’s white sturgeon were successfully brought into domestication

A hand shows the orange snail-like body, eyes and mouth of an endangered white abalone wiggling out of its shell.

How 50 years of California Sea Grant research kept abalone on the menu

Despite challenges brought by invasive pests and disease, California’s abalone are still hanging on.

Local fisherman is selling live local crab at an outdoor fish market.

Celebrate local this holiday season with a new California seafood finder

A new interactive website helps customers find local, sustainable seafood

 Giant – or purple-hinged – rock scallops are big and delicious. Courtesy of Carolynn Culver.

Rock scallops like it rough

By going against conventional wisdom, a team of California Sea Grant and Moss Landing Marine Lab researchers might have finally figured out some critical factors for farming large quantities of elusive giant rock scallop larvae

 Seaweed from land-based culture systems.  Courtesy of Monterey Bay Seaweeds.

California Sea Grant Receives Nearly $700,000 To Develop New Hatchery Technologies For Seaweed Farming

Funding will address critical knowledge gaps in propagating seaweed and expanding U.S. seaweed markets

 Kevin Stuart, a research scientist at Hubbs netting yellowtail fingerlings. Courtesy of Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute.

California Sea Grant Awarded Nearly $630,000 In Yellowtail Research Funding

Improving production of this commercially ready marine fish for aquaculture will help reduce America’s reliance on imported seafood

Tumble culture of the red seaweed dulse (Devaleraea mollis) was used to buffer natural pH fluctuations, to feed juvenile abalone, as can be grown for human consumption with our industrial partner, Monterey Bay Seaweeds. Courtesy of Scott Hamilton.

Ocean acidification can pose a challenge to abalone aquaculture. Seaweed can help

Growing dulse alongside abalone could have big benefits for aquaculture