A student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, I’m currently working through a Masters program in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. I graduated from Boston College in 2008 with a Bachelor of…
Figure 1. Angelfish (2-3 years old) on display at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Photo credit: Ramon Villaverde.One of our first Rising Tide successes was harvesting eggs from Columbus Zoo and…
Figure 1. Halichoeres melanurus egg on a 1 mm Sedgewick Rafter cell. Here at the Tropical Aquaculture Lab we’re very fortunate to have the opportunity to work in a field…
Figure 1. Captive bred Porkfish juvenile available from FishEye Aquaculture.Three years ago we posted a blog stating the commercial production potential of Porkfish,Anisotremis virginicus (Porkfish Protocol – Rising Tide’s First Commercial…
Graduate Student Carter Cyr.I would like to introduce my two new M.S. students who will be working with Rising Tide. The first is Isaac Lee who started his first semester…
Figure 1. 25 day post hatch Purple Masked Angelfish larva.Over the past year while working on our Rising Tide project, the larval rearing work has focused on the Purple Masked…
Samantha Groene in the Rising Tide booth at MACNA 2014.Hello Everyone! My name is Samantha Groene, and I am a biological technician at UF-TAL. I’ve been with the lab for almost…
Hello Everybody! My name is Joe Frith and I have been interning here at the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory in Ruskin, FL for the past 2 months. I would first like…
We were excited to receive 20 mature golden trevally from SeaWorld Orlando nearly a year ago. We distributed 10 fish each into two large recirculating systems. We expected to have…
Golden Trevally grown at IRREC. Eggs were spawned from broodstock received from SeaWorld Orlando. The University of Florida’s Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC) is the latest research facility to…