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Transcript of Rich Langan, "Opportunities and Challenges for Expanding Mussel Aquaculture in New England," Baird...
Opportunities and Challenges for Expanding Mussel Aquaculture in New England
Baird Symposium‐November 14, 2013
Today’s Presentation• Motivation• Methods• History and Current Status• Challenges• Reasons to be Optimistic• Reasons to not be….• Future?
Primary Motivation: US Consumption and Production
• US production
Average 2005‐2012 $4 M; 4.5 M lbs
• Imports$100 M (all products)
$40 M ( fresh/live)
Bottom culture
Rope Cultured Mussels
• Seed Collection/productionWild caughtHatchery
• Nursery CultureOn seed lines; 4-6 months
• GrowoutSuspension of mesh “socks” or growing rope
MUSSEL CULTURE BASICS
NZ style
Spanish style
Surface Referenced Longlines-PEI
Open Ocean‐ US EEZ
Submerged Longline
Finite Element Modeling
Mussel Farming Around New England
14 Lease Holders2 BC9 Raft2 LL
10 km from shore
52 m deep
Current velocities 20 ‐> 150 cm/s
Significant wave heights > 10 m
UNH Offshore Aquaculture
Facility
12 Longlines180,000 lb Capacity
10 acres
15 acres5 Longlines
25 Acres
2 lines (5)
?
We Have the Technology
ShellHeight (mm)
Months Post Deployment
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Jun-99
Oct-99
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Dec-00
Dec-01
Dec-02
May-03
June-04
Favorable Production Cycle
We Can Produce a Superior Product
Favorable Economic Outlook
$3 M
$2 M
$900 K
20%
We Can Create Jobs
We Can Learn from Others
Key component of Integrated MultitrophicAquaculture (IMTA)
We Can Join Forces
Thank You!
Questions?