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Visit Earn Your Captain's License

Earn Your Captain's License

Atlantic Captain’s Academy offers a variety of Coast Guard approved courses for Coast Guard captain’s license candidates.
2020
Atlantic Captain’s Academy
Visit What Does the Oyster Consumer Want?

What Does the Oyster Consumer Want?

Reviews quality, consistency, cleanliness, food safety, shape, flavor, year-round availability, timely shipping, attractive packaging and a nice name.
2019
East Coast Shellfish Growers Association
Visit Does a Flip-Bag System Produce a Better Eastern Oyster?

Does a Flip-Bag System Produce a Better Eastern Oyster?

Reviews tide–flipped bags or baskets ability to produce a more attractive and commercially valuable Eastern oyster for the half–shell market. Found that flip-bag oysters grow slower but had a wider fan, deeper cup, heavier shell, yielded more meat, were less fouled, and required less labor to maintain.
2017
East Coast Shellfish Growers Association, Roger Williams University
Visit The Business of Aquaculture

The Business of Aquaculture

Reviews the keys to running a successful business; the four P's of marketing, wholesale distributors, risks, and sales.
2015
Aquaculture in Shared Waters
Visit Marketing Cultured Oysters

Marketing Cultured Oysters

Video of a workshop that goes over niche marketing for raw bar cultured oysters, differentiating your product on qualities and adapting your marketing pitch, how to target key buyers and get maximum return.
2015
East Coast Shellfish Growers Association
Visit A Comparison of Bottom and Floating Gear for Growing American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Southeastern Massachusetts

A Comparison of Bottom and Floating Gear for Growing American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Southeastern Massachusetts

A study compared how oysters grew in floating cages versus bottom cages that determined that generally oysters grew faster and survival and condition index were higher in floating gear.
2014
Woods Hole Sea Grant, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension
Visit Best Management Practices Template

Best Management Practices Template

Use this to create your own farm-specific Best Management Practices (BMP) document use this template, a Microsoft Excel file in macro format.
2010
East Coast Shellfish Growers Association
Visit Intertidal Lentz System Bag Culture of Oysters

Intertidal Lentz System Bag Culture of Oysters

The intent of the Lentz system is to grow a superior quality oyster while utilizing less labor that will enable significant operation cost reduction and this presentation describes a large trial grow out study of this system.
2010
Alaska Sea Grant
Visit Aquaculture Systems for the Northeast

Aquaculture Systems for the Northeast

Overview of popular finfish and shellfish aquaculture systems (husbandry & gear) used in the northeast including bottom culture, near bottom culture, water column culture, surface culture, hatchery land-based systems.
2008
Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Visit Planning for Success in Your Aquaculture Business

Planning for Success in Your Aquaculture Business

Reviews business management skills, such as finance, record keeping, marketing, and personnel management. More aquaculture businesses fail because of poor management than poor production practices.
2008
Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center

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A Comparison of Bottom and Floating Gear for Growing American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Southeastern Massachusetts

Best Management Practices Template

Intertidal Lentz System Bag Culture of Oysters

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Planning for Success in Your Aquaculture Business

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Earn Your Captain's License

What Does the Oyster Consumer Want?

Does a Flip-Bag System Produce a Better Eastern Oyster?

The Business of Aquaculture

Marketing Cultured Oysters

A Comparison of Bottom and Floating Gear for Growing American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Southeastern Massachusetts

Best Management Practices Template

Intertidal Lentz System Bag Culture of Oysters

Aquaculture Systems for the Northeast

Planning for Success in Your Aquaculture Business