Aquatic Animal Health Research Unit-
USDA/ARS
The Aquatic Animal Health Research Laboratory conducts research in the
areas of bacteriology, parasitology, pathology, nutrition and immunology to solve problems
in aquaculture that diminish productivity and quality of warm-water fish, primarily
catfish, tilapia and hybrid striped bass.
Aquatic
Ecology/Aquaculture - Delaware State University
Research involved in the domestication of striped bass
Catfish
Genetics Research Unit
This research facility primarily researches catfish, but has in the past researched
striped bass and its hybrids.
Cool and Cold Water
Aquaculture Research - USDA/ARS
Research emphases include applied genetics and breeding, integrated aquatic animal
health, aquaculture engineering, nutrition, physiology, culture and management, and
product quality. The focus of the research programs is cool and cold water aquaculture
species including, but not necessarily limited to rainbow trout, Arctic char, and striped
bass.
Crane
Aquaculture Facility - University of Maryland
This site is a 4000 square foot state of the art recirculation facility with a
supporting prep area. The recirculation systems consist of a 4 tank broodstock module and
two 10 tank experiment modules. It is currently conducting work on the domestication of
striped bass.
Department of Animal
and Avian Sciences-University of Maryland-College Park
The long term goals of the lab are to address two major impediments to the
striped bass industry: lack of domestic broodstock and subsequently the lack of available
seedstock on a year-round basis. We have been working to produce domestic broodstock in
captivity and have successfully produced second and third filial generations removed from
the wild populations of the Chesapeake Bay
Kentucky State University
Research Center
This facility is made up of a hatchery, a paddlefish greenhouse, a prawn
greenhouse and a nutrition laboratory. Research has included nutrition studies on hybrid
striped bass.
Maryland
Biotechnology Institute - Aquaculture Facility - Fells Point
Research into the high tech world of genetics and bioengineering is
carried out which will help carry the industry into the future. Among the most prominent
projects are those which will allow the spawning of striped bass on demand, thereby
reducing the reliance upon an annual spawning run of natural stocks.
Harry K. Dupree
Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center - USDA/ARS
Horn Point Environmental
Lab - Center for Environmental Science-University of Maryland
The site of Oyster and striped bass hatcheries, this lab
conducts research on domestication on striped bass for aquaculture.
Louisiana
State University Ag Center Research and Extension
Aquaculture Research Station (ARS), Louisiana State University, provides
information on research projects relating to crawfish, catfish, hybrid striped
bass, tilipia, and other species.
Finfish aquaculture research at MRRI is aimed at developing techniques to ensure
successful culture of selected species and enhancement of wild stocks. The MRRI staff
plays a major role in providing advice and hands-on training for farmers beginning
commercial culture of finfish, especially hybrid striped bass.
North Carolina State University - College of Veterinarian Medicine
Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale -Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center
Their focus is on development of intensive rearing of striped bass. Research has included
FDA drug approval for brood fish, evaluating geographical strains of white bass for
producing sunshine bass, nutrition requirements, comparison performance of palmetto and
sunshine bass, and semen storage.
Southwest
Virginia Aquaculture Research and Extension Center
This facility studies the feasibility of recirculating systems
Texas
A&M
Aquaculture research at Texas A&M encompasses both basic and applied efforts to
solve problems that inhibit the prudent exploitation of captive aquatic organisms for
commercial and recreational use. Currently, red drum and marine shrimp are the organisms
of primary interest, although researchers also focus attention on oysters, crayfish,
catfish and sportfish (particularly hybrid striped bass and largemouth bass). Research
issues include nutritional requirements and bioenergetics, environmental requirements and
mechanisms of physical adaptation, genetics and genome manipulation, disease control and
culture techniques.
Tidewater
Research Station
The aquaculture research program includes ponds, raceways, and tank culture of
finfish. Pond production is conducted in 18 quarter-acre ponds with studies focused on
striped hybrid bass and yellow perch. Phase II fingerlings are purchased for the
striped hybrid bass; studies involving feeding and water quality are conducted in the
grow-out phase with this species.
University of Arkansas at Pine
Bluff - Aquaculture Systems Research
Virginia Maryland
Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
This research facility focuses on the diseases, diagnosis, pathology,
immunology, parasitology and bacteriology of both vertebrate and invertebrate aquatic
organisms.
Virginia
Tech Aquaculture Center
The purpose of this innovative facility is to provide comprehensive
education and research programs focusing on the development of commercial recirculating
aquaculture systems nationwide.
