GREEN BIZ - Innovations: Robotic Fish Farms and Trees as Fire Sentinels
Maine firm, partners make moveable fish farm for deep-ocean aquaculture
- Fisheries Technology
- Community Impacts
- Marine Safety
MIT Sea Grant is committed to achieving and maintaining sustainability in fisheries by improving aquaculture, engineering of fishing systems, assessing the economic and social impacts of regulations, increasing our understanding of the ecological significance of fishing and aquaculture, and developing better tools for determining the abundance and behavior of commercially important stocks.
PI(s): Chrys Chryssostomidis, MIT Sea Grant
Project Summary: The Center for Fisheries Engineering Research (CFER) is a focused research effort of the MIT Sea Grant College Program. CFER's mission is the solution of problems facing the fishing industries of Massachusetts and the nation. While all CFER projects include the application of engineering know-how, projects are typically multidisciplinary and often involve biological, social and management issues
PI(s): Madeleine Hall-Arber, MIT Sea Grant
Project Summary: The aim of the Center for Marine Social Sciences (CMSS) is to explore the human, social, and political aspects of marine-related issues. This work helps identify solutions to complex issues and contributes to policy development. CMSS will continue to focus on the fishing industry and those communities it supports. In addition, CMSS is concerned with coastal zone issues in which the human context can greatly influence the acceptance of management policies. The center will also continue to provide critical assessments of proposed management plans for regional management authorities.
PI(s): Brandy M. M. Wilbur, MIT Sea Grant
Project Summary: Farm raising fish for consumption is not a new concept, but there are not many marine fish species that are commercially available. MIT Sea Grant recognized the need to aid in the development of aquaculture in Massachusetts and started a Boston Aquaculture Initiative Program to deal with these issues. In January of 1998, MIT Sea Grant's Marine Finfish Hatchery began operation in the Charlestown Navy Yard. In 2003, the hatchery moved north to our new aquaculture facility located at the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center.
