UH Mānoa units team up to open new aquaculture center
The Tuahine Aquaculture Research and Education Center was recently completed as a new aquaculture facility at UH Mānoa.
The Tuahine Aquaculture Research and Education Center was recently completed as a new aquaculture facility at UH Mānoa.
Armando García-Ortega, an aquaculture professor at UH Hilo, is leading a significant change in fish farming.
The new consortium is funded to address critical economic and marketing gaps in the country’s aquaculture industry.
The globally regarded aquaculture economics educator and researcher died on February 20, 2023.
The funding is part of a nearly $14 million federal funding investment to strengthen U.S. aquaculture.
A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture was awarded to the Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture.
One of the goals was to understand how fish growth can be affected or increased by changing environmental conditions such as salinity.
Representatives from ten Pacific Northwest tribes, gathered in Heʻeia to learn about Native Hawaiian aquaculture practices in February.
The UH Sea Grant College Program organized a competition inviting high school students to submit videos addressing the theme of Hawaiian aquaculture.
The UH Hilo aquaculture center assisted in raising oysters, nature’s most efficient water filters, to restore native oysters and improve clarity in Hawaiʻi waters.