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Dr. Richard Langan, director of UNH's Open Ocean Aquaculture Project, will testify before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee's National Ocean Policy Study Subcomittee during its Offshore Aquaculture Hearing scheduled for April 6. Read more >

Harvest: the 2005 Annual Report for the Cooperative Institute for New England Mariculture and Fisheries (CINEMAR) is available online. Read more >

In response to a need for a comprehensive regulatory framework for open ocean aquaculture, the Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy at the University of Delaware has recently published a new study. Read more >

Comment on national ocean research priorities. Read more >

From Hatch to Harvest: we invite you to learn more about our pioneer effort in open ocean cod farming—from hatch to harvest. Read more >

Want to learn more about the research behind offshore fish and shellfish farming? The Open Ocean Aquaculture Project progress reports for 2005 are available online. Read more >

WMUR’s New Hampshire Chronicle has landed a live one. Tune in to Channel 9 on Wednesday, October 12, at 7:30 p.m., and watch a double feature of UNH scientists, students, and alumni with a real fish story to tell. Read more. >

Researchers from UNH’s Open Ocean Aquaculture Project and New Hampshire Fishermen “planted” the first offshore commercial blue mussel farms in the United States last month. Watch a slideshow. >

UNH Open Ocean Aquaculture Press Advisory. Read more >

OOA progress reports for 2004 available online. Read more >

New Hampshire Fishermen are Mussel Bound. Read more >

History Channel Fishes for Modern Marvels off N.H. Coast. Read more >

OOA Farm Raised Seafood Featured at NOAA Fish Fry! Read more >

Watch the OOA team Harvest Halibut from Deep Sea Cages.

New Automated Feed Buoy Deployed. Read more >

Cod Fingerlings Transferred to New Sea Station Cage. Read more >

UNH Granted Top-Tier Sea Grant Status: OOA Mussels Put to the Taste Test. Read more >

Cod Fingerling Production a Success. Read more >

New Multi-Cage Grid System Installed. Read more >

Economic Assessment of Offshore Mussel Culture Completed. Read more >

Cold Conditions Take Toll But Feed Buoy Repairs are Successful. Read more >
in the news

Portsmouth Herald: Aquaculture firm nets $249,000

BusinessWeek Online: Six Miles Out, Controversy In A Cage

NOAA Magazine: NOAA’S offshore aquaculture activities: The new frontier

FISHupdate: Offshore fish farming conference to be held in Malta

Portsmouth Herald: Deep-sea fishing

Rye Reflections: Innovative fish farm research underway off White Island

Concord Monitor Online: Red tide find leads to ban of harvests

FISHupdate: Aqua 2006 hears of key role for offshore aquaculture

Scripps Howard News Service: Will U.S. get hooked on ocean fish farms? Some hope not

The New Hampshire Union Leader: Sununu group studying fish farms

Porstmouth Herald: NH Sea Grant holds roundtable on offshore aquaculture on April 5.

National Public Radio: Feeding the World with Deep-Sea Fish Farms

Anchorage Press: Fish farming moves forward