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Published: September 30, 2010
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The New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium/New Jersey Sea Grant and Rutgers University’s Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory recently received funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Sea Grant Program to support an aquaculture extension agent with shellfish expertise.
The three-year, $300,000 grant will fund a New Jersey Sea Grant extension agent to support ongoing studies in oyster aquaculture being conducted at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (HSRL).
Close to 190 licensed aquaculturists and four commercial shellfish hatcheries exist in the state. Recent advances in oyster and hard clam aquaculture in New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic region, as well as the establishment of school-based outreach program, are building blocks for an integrated extension program in southern New Jersey.
The new aquaculture agent, who will administratively be a program coordinator in the statewide Rutgers Cooperative Extension structure, is expected to be hired sometime this fall and will be based at the HSRL facility in Cape May, NJ.
source: Rutgers University press release
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EmailThe New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium/New Jersey Sea Grant and Rutgers University’s Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory recently received funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Sea Grant Program to support an aquaculture extension agent with shellfish expertise.
The three-year, $300,000 grant will fund a New Jersey Sea Grant extension agent to support ongoing studies in oyster aquaculture being conducted at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (HSRL).
Close to 190 licensed aquaculturists and four commercial shellfish hatcheries exist in the state. Recent advances in oyster and hard clam aquaculture in New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic region, as well as the establishment of school-based outreach program, are building blocks for an integrated extension program in southern New Jersey.
The new aquaculture agent, who will administratively be a program coordinator in the statewide Rutgers Cooperative Extension structure, is expected to be hired sometime this fall and will be based at the HSRL facility in Cape May, NJ.
source: Rutgers University press release
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