Climate change continues to challenge coastal aquaculture, particularly sectors heavily reliant upon ambient coastal water resources. Typical bivalve larval hatchery practices rely on pumping near-shore coastal waters to support flow through larval production. In such applications, suboptimal ambient water quality can cause impaired hatchery/larviculture performance. The application of recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), has been investigated to allow reuse of larval production water, thereby minimizing impacts from fluctuating ambient coastal waters. This presentation provides updates from ongoing efforts in development of such a system in Virginia, integrating programming from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science Eastern Shore Lab, the Virginia Tech – Virginia Seafood Agriculture Research and Extension Center, Virginia Sea Grant, and Oyster Seed Holdings, LLC.