Aquaculture Research

An image of an alewife, 45 days old, taken by a COLSA aquaculture researcher.
Aquaculture Research at UNH: Using Fish Physiology to Help Growers of Commercially Important Species
Optimizing culture conditions and strains is necessary to assure adequate growth and survival of fishes cultured for food and for stock restoration. This work is also important to understand and, in some cases, mitigate the impacts of adverse environmental conditions on wild fishes.
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COLSA aquaculture researcher Ray Grizzle (right) and a student looking through oyster shells
Aquaculture Research at UNH: The Importance of Cultivated Eastern Oysters in Great Bay
Dr. Ray Grizzle and his colleagues at the University of New Hampshire study the many ecological services offered by eastern oysters and how they can support current restoration efforts in and around New Hampshire's Great Bay Estuary.
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COLSA aquaculture researcher Elizabeth Fairchild holding a lumpfish
Aquaculture Research at UNH: Using Lumpfish in Aquaculture Production
UNH has been working with the New England aquaculture industry (salmon farmers in Maine and steelhead trout farmers in NH) to promote the use of Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) as cleaner fish in salmonid cage culture to control parasitic sea lice. 
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Microscopic view of Dermo and MSX taken at the Ecological Genetics Lab at UNH
Aquaculture Research at UNH: Farming and Restoration in Great Bay Estuary
Dr. Bonnie Brown and her colleagues study the many factors impacting the health and growth of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in New Hampshire's Great Bay Estuary and throughout the North American Atlantic coast.
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