Advancing Aquaculture: Our Role in an Emerging Industry

Perspectives | Dec 31, 2016

by Don Perkins

Former CEO & Founder

In recent years, GMRI has begun a new aquaculture program, focused on growing this emerging industry in the Gulf of Maine. Below, President & CEO Don Perkins describes our goals, as well as some recent progress:

Three fishermen in orange waders stand on a white boat with a line of large blue bins aboard as they drift on gray waters between rows of black buoys.
Mook Sea Farm is an oyster farm founded in 1985 on the Damariscotta River in Midcoast Maine. There, owner and operator Bill Mook unites a passion for science and discovery with a fierce entrepreneurial streak.

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