Freshwater's Research and Training in Action

Click on the video below to watch the April 20, 2009 NBC Nightly News story on aquaculture in Bar Harbor, Maine featuring the new USDA ARS National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center and Cooke Aquaculture.

The Freshwater Institute designed the water reuse systems and effluent treatment processes for the USDA Marine Aquaculture Center and more than a half-dozen staff from Cooke Aquaculture attended our short course on Water Reuse for Intensive Fish Culture. Eight more of Cooke's staff will attend the course this July.

The water reuse system design concepts and best management practices taught by The Freshwater Institute can be implemented to significantly reduce the environmental impact of aquaculture.

We hope to provide the technology and management practices for a US-based industry to produce fish in land-based closed-containment systems in a manner that prevents the negative environmental interactions that are associated with net pen farming.