Leadership Message from Janet Coit: Aquaculture Week
 Aquaculture Week (September 27-30) is our yearly opportunity to highlight the aquaculture community’s accomplishments and impacts. NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Janet Coit provides her perspective on advancing sustainable aquaculture in the United States. Read More »
 U.S. aquaculture operations are subject to a complex array of regulations that growers sometimes find challenging. To assist the aquaculture community, the Office of Aquaculture has updated the U.S. shellfish aquaculture permitting inventory and added inventories for finfish and seaweed aquaculture. Read More »
 Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Natural Resources.
NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region, along with working group partners, has developed an Alaska Aquaculture Permitting Portal and Alaska Aquaculture Permitting Guide. These materials bring together leasing and permitting information from state and federal regulators all into one place. The first-of-its-kind tools support new and existing farmers in navigating the initial application steps as well as authorization renewal, transfer, and amendment processes. Read More »
Together, the Alaska Regional Office and the Alaska Fisheries Science Center have produced a report highlighting their accomplishments, projects, and actions undertaken to support the aquaculture industry in Alaska over the past year. Read More »
The Nature Conservancy Releases Report on Restorative Aquaculture Principles
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Once, nearly 500 fishponds provided local Hawaiian communities with aquacultured seafood. KUA, an innovative community-based initiative, supports network efforts to build capacity to restore and care for these traditional fishponds. Read More »
Congressional Briefing Highlights Aquaculture’s Ability to Build Climate Resilience
This summer, the NOAA Fisheries Office of Aquaculture and the American Fisheries Society briefed Congressional members and stakeholders on how sustainably farmed seafood can diversify our food production in the face of environmental change and economic uncertainty. Read More »
Oyster Ninja Introduces New Audiences to Shellfish
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As the Oyster Ninja, nationally ranked oyster shucker Gardner Douglas hosts a popular podcast that brings shellfish recipes, research and conservation work, and guest speakers to his listeners. Read More »
The 7 R’s of Integrating Tribal and Indigenous Partnerships Into Aquaculture Literacy
 Credit: Lindsey Pierce/Environmental Specialist at the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
Integrating perspectives from Indigenous groups who have important histories and expertise with aquaculture is a critical step in expanding sustainable aquaculture in the U.S. NOAA’s Community of Practice for Aquaculture Literacy (CoPAL) and the eeBLUE partnership facilitated a discussion highlighting the diversity of experiences and perspectives of Native communities and how to build meaningful partnerships with them. Read More »
Summer Scholars Help Expand Aquaculture Accessibility
 This summer the NOAA Fisheries Office of Aquaculture hosted two summer scholars, who helped advance NOAA’s aquaculture work and stakeholder outreach. Learn more about each scholar’s experience in this Q&A. Read More »
NOAA Strives to Enhance Public Knowledge of Aquaculture
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Aquaculture literacy refers to a community’s familiarity with information about aquaculture and related environmental, economic, and social topics. Enhancing aquaculture literacy helps community members confidently participate in discussions about seafood farming, which is key to understanding its challenges and opportunities. Read More »
5 Things to Know About Aquafeeds
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A key component of sustainable aquaculture is using feed ingredients that support sustainable growth of the aquaculture sector and preserve the unique combination of nutrients needed to sustain healthy fish and healthy people. With this in mind, scientific research has driven major improvements in the sustainability and efficiency of aquafeeds. Read More »
For the Seafood Nutrition Partnership, seafood and community health are inextricably linked. The non-profit organization brings together a network of physicians, researchers, dietitians, chefs, retailers, and community leaders to empower smart seafood decisions. Healthy seafood comes from both farmed and wild-capture sources and is available at all price points. Read More »
NOAA Sea Grant and Ocean Acidification Program Projects to Examine Impacts of Stressors on Shellfish Aquaculture
Sea Grant has announced the recent awards for four projects covering U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Mid-Atlantic, New England, and West Coast. The selected projects will strengthen relationships between the shellfish aquaculture industry and the aquaculture research community; develop scientific knowledge on the impacts of ocean and coastal acidification in combination with other stressors to shellfish aquaculture; and create data products, tools, technologies, management practices and other deliverables that are broadly applicable to building resilience within the shellfish aquaculture sector. Read More »
SOAR Resiliency Fund Recipients Announced
The SOAR Shellfish Growers Resiliency Fund is providing more than one million dollars in awards to shellfish farmers and organizations across the United States who are “raising the bar in the aquaculture industry on conservation, innovation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.” The Fund is a partnership between TNC and The Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with NOAA, NRCS, state management agencies and shellfish growers’ associations. Get to know this year's recipients and learn more about the fund. Read More »
On the Reel: Aquaculture Videos You May Have Missed
 Milford Lab: Birthplace of Modern Shellfish Aquaculture outlines the lab’s fundamental contributions to shellfish biology and reproduction, as well as the growth of sustainable aquaculture.
Sandy Hook 101 explores the research, partnerships, outreach, location, and education at the NOAA James J. Howard Marine Sciences Lab at Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
Oyster reefs serve as a defense against a rising ocean, making them vital to bays and waterways around the world. Find out How Oysters Can Stop a Flood.
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