Maine Shellfish Aquaculture Course Enrolling Now

If you are interested, this facility and faculty have a terrific reputation. I wish I could go and learn more about raising oysters. Come to think of it, I do feel a flu coming on....


Techniques in Shellfish Aquaculture
SMS 309/598
Darling Marine Center
June 17-21, 2013

Techniques in Shellfish Aquaculture is a one week residential course where participants explore the theory and practice of marine bivalve aquaculture as practiced in the northeastern
United States. This is an intense, “hands-on” class with strong laboratory and field methods components.
Topics covered include:

reproductive biology
genetics
algal culture
larval rearing
shellfish pathology
site selection
water quality
ecological impacts

For more information, contact:
Linda Healy, Events Coordinator
Darling Marine Center
(207) 563-3146
lhealy@maine.edu
or
Dr. Chris Davis, Instructor
School of Marine Sciences
(207) 832-1075
cdavis@midcoast.com
or
Dr. Anne Langston
Aquaculture Research Institute
(207) 356-2982
anne.langston@umit.maine.edu