Aquaculture 2025

March 6 - 10, 2025

New Orleans, Louisiana USA

Access to Credit – FSA Farm Loan Lending Options for Aquaculture Producers

Friday, March 7, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Salon C
Chair: Steven Peterson

1:30

THE INLAND PRODUCTION OF THE EASTERN OYSTER UTILIZING A

CLOSED ARTIFICIAL SEAWATER RECIRCULATING AQUACULTURE SYSTEM
Steve Pollock, Owner, Triple N Oysters, Grand Isle LA

1:45

CHANGING THE DYNAMIC: RAISING BASS FINGERLINGS IN SPLIT POND SYSTEMS
Shawn McNulty, Owner, American Sport Fish Hatchery Management Group, LLC., Pike Road AL

2:00

JUVENILE LARGEMOUTH BASS Micropterus salmoides DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY AND VACCINATION RESPONSE AGAINST Aeromonas spp.
Timothy J. Bruce, Assistant Professor, Auburn University, Auburn AL

2:15

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC ASSAYS FOR THE DETECTION OF A LETHAL VIRAL DISEASE OF CULTURED AND WILD WHITE STURGEON Acipenser transmontanus
Thomas B. Waltzek, Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

2:30

BIRD DEPREDATION ON CATFISH AND BAITFISH AQUACULTURE
Brian S. Dorr, Research Wildlife Biologist, USDA APHIS WS, National Wildlife Research Center, Starkville MS

2:45

AQUACULTURE EXTENSION IMPACTS ACROSS THE WESTERN REGION
Jackson A. Gross, Cooperative Extension Aquaculture Specialist, University of California Davis, Davis CA

3:00

AQUACULTURE INFORMATION EXCHANGE: THE NEW ONLINE HOME FOR THE U.S. AQUACULTURE COMMUNITY
Joe Caterine, Digital Experience Manager, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point VA

3:15

THE IMMUNOLOGICAL BASIS FOR OPTIMIZING INTERVAL TIMES FOR FISH MUCOSAL VACCINATION
Irene Salinas Remiro, Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM

3:30

QUANTIFYING MALE REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE TO IMPROVE

HATCHERY PRODUCTION OF HYBRID CATFISH
Ian A.E. Butts, Associate Professor, Auburn University, Auburn AL

3:45

REEVALUATE PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN IN DIFFERENT SIZED

PARTICLES IN WATER IN AQUACULTURE PONDS FOR BETTER

PREDICTING HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS
Dengjun (Kevin) Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville FL

4:00

BURBOT Lota lota AQUACULTURE: INVESTIGATION OF IMMUNE

DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF RECIRCULATING AQUACULTURE FOR EMBRYONIC AND LARVAL CULTURE
Luke Oliver, Trevor Strickland, Ryan Maxwell, Veronica Myrsell, Spenser Stenmark, Joseph Evavold, Kenneth Cain

4:15

GROWING AQUACULTURE LITERACY IN MAINE’S 4TH TO 8TH GRADE

CLASSROOMS
Christopher V. Davis, Maine Aquaculture Information Center, Walpole ME

4:30

WHEN BLUE IS GREEN: SUSTAINABLE BLUE FOOD SYSTEMS DRIVEN BY INTEGRATED AQUAPONICS
Jen-Yi Huang, Associate Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

5:00

SMART SUSTAINABLE SHELLFISH AQUACULTURE MANAGEMENT: AN

INTEGRATED APPROACH TOWARDS PRECISION SHELLFISH FARMING

Miao Yu, Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD