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2017 Maryland Shellfish Aquaculture Industry Roundtable Workshop
Sponsored by Maryland Sea Grant.
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Place: Doubletree Hotel, 210 Holiday Court, Annapolis, Maryland
Local Maryland shellfish growers were invited to participate in a two-part workshop series as part of Maryland Sea Grant's continuing efforts to engage with and support the aquaculture industry.
A final technical report from the workshop is available for download. For more information, please see our blog post regarding this meeting on our blog, On the Bay or this brief synopsis.
Goals of the Workshop
- To identify, via industry input, priority problems in the Maryland aquaculture industry.
- To identify research-based solutions to address these problems.
- To identify key questions around priority problems that research can help address.
- To gather information related to these issues in order to bring it to scientists who want to help craft solutions.
The workshop included facilitator presentations, table discussions, full group discussions, and voting surveys to determine the top priority issues. For additional information on the structure of the workshop, please review our agenda.
Workshop Materials
The following materials were distributed to all attendees both during and after the workshop:
- Workshop Agenda
- Workshop Briefing Packet: A brief introduction outlining meeting goals and meeting organizer contact information.
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
