Aquaculture Engineering Group
Great Bay Aquaculture
JPS industries
Kona Blue Water
Ocean Farm Technologies
OceanSpar
Northwest Marine Technology
SCORE

Aquaculture Engineering Group
The center has teamed up with the Aquaculture Engineering Group (AEG) in New Brunswick, Canada and Ocean Spar to develop a multi-cage automated feeding system. AEG, a leader in the development of offshore farming systems in Canada, is constructing and testing the feeder in St. Andrews, NB and will transport the feeder to the UNH offshore site in the spring of 2007

Great Bay Aquaculture
We work with New Hampshire-based Great Bay Aquaculture (GBA), the only commercial hatchery that rears cod in the United States to refine the science and business of incubating, hatching, and rearing cod fingerlings.
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JPS industries
Collaborative engineering research created a new business opportunity in submersible cage production for JPS Industries from Bristol, N.H. An SBIR grant allowed JPS to partner with us to develop and test a prototype cage that it plans to manufacture and market in the near future.
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Kona Blue Water Farms
Hawaii’s Kona Blue Water Farms used engineering design and assessment tools we developed to establish their offshore farm. Kona Bluewater now harvests 6,000 lbs of Kona Kampachi weekly for a high-end national market. We are providing additional engineering support for their planned expansion.
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Ocean Farm Technologies
The Center provided logistical support and engineering design and assessment for the Aquapod submersible fish cage developed by Ocean Farm Technologies from Searsmont, Maine. Following the cage evaluation at UNH’s offshore site, Ocean Farm Technologies was able to attract substantial private investment and has manufactured several cages as well as installed and stocked a demonstration cage in Puerto Rico.
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OceanSpar
Engineering innovation in feeding technology is creating a new sales opportunity for Ocean Spar, a fish cage manufacturer from Bainbridge, Washington. With funding from the NOAA SBIR program, UNH and OceanSpar partnered on the development of a multi-cage automated feeder, allowing the company to offer a key piece of equipment to its product line and enhance the sale of additional cages.
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Northwest Marine Technology
UNH researchers work closely with Northwest Marine Technology to evaluate the effectiveness of different tagging technology for the purposes of stock enhancement.
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SCORE
UNH scientists are co-founders of SCORE—the Science Consortium for Ocean Replenishment (SCORE). Funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SCORE includes scientists from Florida’s Mote Marine Laboratory, the Manchester Marine Research Station of the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. SCORE scientists are dedicated to the development of responsible, effective marine stock enhancement. The consortium’s strength comes from the diversity of expertise represented by its member scientists, the variety of species and habitats studied, the wide geographic base of research, and the cooperative sharing of ideas and data.
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