{"id":114,"date":"2015-11-16T23:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:37:41","slug":"nurserygrowout","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/nurserygrowout\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Production Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have a number of larger rearing systems available for industry projects, as nurseries, for feed trials, or for grow out of fish to market.&nbsp;Units 2&amp;3, pictured below, were newly refitted in 2006. Each rearing unit has nine circular tanks supported with an independent RAS.&nbsp;The tanks each hold 14.4 m<sup>3 <\/sup>of water (about 3,800 gallons), and when stocked out at full carrying capacity the two systems combined can hold about 13,000 kg (28,665 lbs) of fish. In 2007-08 Units 2&amp;3 were used by Great Bay Aquaculture as a cod nursery prior to stocking the fish at a nearby ocean lease site. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image114_ba8e7c-f0 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image114_ba8e7c-f0\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2015\/11\/Nursery-systems.jpg\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2015\/11\/Nursery-systems.jpg\" alt=\"Aquaculture tanks for growout\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2015\/11\/Nursery-systems.jpg 575w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2015\/11\/Nursery-systems-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2015\/11\/Nursery-systems-105x79.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2015\/11\/Nursery-systems-210x157.jpg 210w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2015\/11\/Nursery-systems-317x238.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2015\/11\/Nursery-systems-423x317.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,575px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a number of larger rearing systems available for industry projects, as nurseries, for feed trials, or for grow out of fish to market.&nbsp;Units 2&amp;3, pictured below, were newly refitted in 2006. Each rearing unit has nine circular tanks supported with an independent RAS.&nbsp;The tanks each hold 14.4 m3 of water (about 3,800 gallons), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fish Production Trials - Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research - University of Maine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/nurserygrowout\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fish Production Trials - Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research - University of Maine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We have a number of larger rearing systems available for industry projects, as nurseries, for feed trials, or for grow out of fish to market.&nbsp;Units 2&amp;3, pictured below, were newly refitted in 2006. 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