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Aquaculture
Maryland Sea Grant has supported the development of aquaculture as an exciting new commercial opportunity in Maryland. It's one that capitalizes on the natural resources of our coastal waters and on the human resources of this state, the people who have long worked these waters for their living.
You can find more information from Maryland Sea Grant about aquaculture on several pages on our website:
Oyster Aquaculture and Restoration: Maryland Sea Grant Extension offers technical assistance and help finding start-up funding.
Finfish Aquaculture: We offer fact sheets and information about raising striped bass and other finfish in cages and tanks.
Maryland Aquafarmer (archive): Back issues of a newsletter about varied aspects of aquaculture in Maryland.
Shellfish Aquaculture: See additional background information about aquaculture of clams and oysters.
Aquatic Plants: Maryland Sea Grant Extension supports the aquaculture of aquatic plants useful in watershed restoration projects like stormwater management ponds.
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Managing the Chesapeake's Fisheries: A Work in Progress
Houde, Edward D
This monograph is a major assessment of the state of key species in the Chesapeake Bay — the eastern oyster, blue crab, striped bass, and Atlantic menhaden — and of the prospects for shifting from single-species fisheries management to…
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Leone Yisrael is a cephalopod-loving scuba diver, cook, and loves to try new activities. She conducts genetic analysis and fieldwork at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center through the Coastal Disease Ecology Lab.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
