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Dolores Leonard
dolores.leonard@unh.edu
603.862.3685
October 10, 2005
DURHAM, N.H. — 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.
The program will follow the crew of UNH’s Open Ocean Aquaculture Demonstration Project six miles off shore as they harvest their first crop of Atlantic haddock from a deep water, experimental farm. Driven by an interdisciplinary team of biologists and engineers, the Project explores the environmental soundness and technological feasibility of farming finfish and shellfish in the Gulf of Maine.
Then take a ride to Great Bay Aquafarms on the Portsmouth waterfront, where a UNH alum and his partner raise cod and flounder on land, and ship it to a worldwide market for growout.
