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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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Fort Bragg has the best kind of blues
Collaborative efforts to develop a new “blue economy” include a new California Sea Grant extension fellow
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The birth of the California Current Acidification Network
When oyster larvae started dying in record numbers, California Sea Grant jumped into action
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Sharing Ocean Space to Boost Seafood Production
California Sea Grant’s New Website Offers Solutions For Shrinking America’s Seafood Deficit
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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
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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.
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Celebrate local this holiday season with a new California seafood finder
A new interactive website helps customers find local, sustainable seafood
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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
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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
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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
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Ocean acidification can pose a challenge to abalone aquaculture. Seaweed can help
Growing dulse alongside abalone could have big benefits for aquaculture