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Enhancing trout performance through dietary acidification
Enhancing trout performance through dietary acidification -
Duration:3 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2023Funding level:$292,044Location:Idaho - ID, Montana - MTTopics:Diet and Nutrition, Metabolic rateSpecies:Trout
Purple urchin aquaculture: roe enhancement
Purple urchin aquaculture: roe enhancement-Gardner
Duration:3 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2023Funding level:$381,370Location:California - CA, Idaho - ID, Oregon - ORTopics:Culture, Culture/egg quality, Hatchery, SystemsSpecies:Shellfish
Optimization of pre and post-harvest factors to extend the shelf life and improve the quality of whole fish and fillets of salmonids and white sturgeon
Optimization of pre and post-harvest factors to extend the shelf life and improve the quality of whole fish and fillets of salmonids and white sturgeon - Yang
Duration:3 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2021Funding level:$359,835Location:California - CA, Idaho - ID, Oregon - ORTopics:Economics, Humane slaughterSpecies:Steelhead, Sturgeon, Trout
Characterization of aquaculture in the western U.S.
Aquaculture farm in Boulder, Colorado. Photo: Liley Fisheries, Colorado.
Duration:2 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2021Funding level:$237,218Location:Alaska – AK, Arizona – AZ, California - CA, Colorado - CO, Idaho - ID, Montana - MT, Nevada - NV, New Mexico – NM, Oregon - OR, Utah - UT, Washington - WA, Wyoming – WY, non-WRAC statesTopics:Economics, Status of aquaculture
Mixing up an optimal diet for white sturgeon grow-out
Mixing up an optimal diet for white sturgeon grow-out, Sealey 2021
Duration:4 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2021Funding level:$453,921Location:California - CA, Idaho - ID, Montana - MTTopics:Diet and Nutrition, Grow outSpecies:Sturgeon
Detection and control of mud blister worm (Polydora spp.) infestation on commercial oyster farms throughout the Pacific Northwest
Detection and control of mud blister worm (Polydora spp.) infestation on commercial oyster farms throughout the Pacific Northwest - Wood
Duration:3 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2019Funding level:$359,065Location:Alaska – AK, Oregon - OR, Washington - WATopics:PolydoraSpecies:Oysters
Emerging and re-emerging Flavobacterial pathogens in aquaculture (Cain)
Emerging and re-emerging Flavobacterial pathogens in aquaculture-Cain
Duration:3 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2018Funding level:$326,125Location:California - CA, Idaho - ID, Washington - WATopics:Cold water disease, Flavobacterial pathogens, Vaccination developmentSpecies:Trout
Development of oral vaccine delivery methods for prevention of disease in finfish culture
This project intends to harness the potential of novel complex particles to aid in oral vaccination.
Duration:4 years (2019-2022)Funded Date:8/1/2018Funding level:$479,900Location:Idaho - ID, Oregon - OR, Washington - WATopics:Vaccine deliverySpecies:Sablefish, Trout
Identification of genetic markers for disease resistance to infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) in commercial populations of rainbow trout through genome-wide association analysis
In the effort to enhance the productivity of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) industry, one crucial concern is disease, which [...]
Duration:3 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2017Funding level:$338,795Location:California - CA, Idaho - ID, Washington - WATopics:Genetics, IHNV - Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virusSpecies:Trout
Developing "freshwater cod" or burbot (Lota lota) into a viable commercial aquaculture species in the United States (Cain)
Researcher holding burbot (Lota lota)
Duration:4 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2017Funding level:$421,260Location:Colorado - CO, Idaho - ID, Washington - WATopics:Grow out, Hatchery, Water quality - fresh and marineSpecies:Burbot
The economic impact of regulations on shellfish and trout aquaculture growth in the western United States
Engle - Economic impact of regulations 2016; Illustration: Scite® – Science Crunchers
Duration:3 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2015Funding level:$220,998Location:California - CA, Colorado - CO, Idaho - ID, non-WRAC states, Oregon - OR, Utah - UT, Washington - WATopics:Economics, RegulationsSpecies:Shellfish, Trout
Determining causes, costs, and benefits of triploidization to improve sturgeon caviar production
Schreier - Determining Causes, Costs, and Benefits of Triploidization in Caviar Production - 2016; Photo: Fred Conte
Duration:4 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2015Funding level:$412,263Location:California - CA, Idaho - ID, Montana - MTTopics:Broodstock, Coulter counter, Genetics, Ploidy/polyploidy
Determination and practical application of egg quality measures toward reliable culture of high-value marine finfish species
Drawbridge - Optimizing Larva Nutrition of Marine Finfish - 2013 - Photo: Mark Drawbridge
Duration:3 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2014Funding level:$294,068Location:California - CA, Washington - WATopics:Broodstock, Culture/egg qualitySpecies:Sablefish, Yellowtail
If you feed them, will they grow? A dietary approach to improving the growth of juvenile cutthroat trout
Myrick - Dietary approach for Juvenile Cuttthroat trout - 2013; Photo: Courtesy of
Duration:4 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2012Funding level:$357,91Location:Colorado - CO, Idaho - ID, Montana - MTTopics:Diet and Nutrition, Fish feed/protein/alternative protein, Grow outSpecies:Cutthroat trout, Trout
Efficient, rapid assay for predicting the growth rate of aquaculture species based on metabolic rate of the fertilized egg
Renquist - Rapid Assay for Prediction Growth Rate of Aquaculture Species - trout -2013; Photo: Benjamin Renquist
Duration:2 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2012Funding level:$120,000Location:Arizona – AZ, Idaho - ID, Oregon - ORTopics:Culture/egg quality, Hatchery, Metabolic rate, Rapid assaySpecies:Oysters, Tilapia
Adapting aquaculture to changing water chemistry in the Pacific Northwest
Adapting aquaculture to changing water chemistry in the Pacific Northwest; Photo: Courtesy of George Waldbusser
Duration:4 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2012Funding level:$318,627Location:Oregon - OR, Washington - WATopics:Hatchery, Water quality - fresh and marineSpecies:Oysters
Triploids, tetraploids, and successful metamorphosis in Purple hinge rock scallop (Crassadoma gigantean)
Davis - Triples, Tetraploids - Purple Hinge Rock Scallop 2016; Photo: Josh Davis
Duration:4 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2012Funding level:$357,269Location:California - CA, Washington - WATopics:Culture, Grow out, Hatchery, Ploidy/polyploidySpecies:Rock Scallop
Profitable and biosecure rock scallop culture for the West Coast
Olin - Rock Scallop Culture - 2013 - Photo: Paul Olin
Duration:2 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2012Funding level:$229,144Location:California - CA, Washington - WATopics:Culture, Grow out, HatcherySpecies:Rock Scallop
Environmental and endogenous factors affecting egg quality and caviar yield in farmed sturgeon
Doroshov - Egg quality an caviar yield in farmed sturgeon -2013 - Photo: Fred Conte
Duration:4 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2010Funding level:$480,000Location:California - CA, Idaho - ID, Montana - MT, Washington - WATopics:Broodstock, Diet and Nutrition, Economics, Grow outSpecies:Sturgeon
Optimizing the larval nutrition of marine finfish aquaculture species along the West Coast
Optimizing larval nutrition of marine finfish aquaculture 2010- Drawbridge
Duration:3 yearsFunded Date:9/1/2010Funding level:$200,544Location:California - CA, Idaho - ID, Oregon - ORTopics:Diet and Nutrition, HatcherySpecies:Yellowtail