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CCAR
Facilities 
The Center for
Cooperative Aquaculture Research located in Franklin, Maine is a
recently acquired commercial scale aquaculture facility now run by the
University of Maine.
Located on a 24-acre site with 610 feet of tidal marine frontage on
Taunton Bay, the facilities comprise both seawater and freshwater
systems for finfish rearing and holding.
The
buildings on the site include:
o H1. Salmonid
egg incubation building (432 ft2)
o H2. Pilot scale recirculation marine finfish hatchery (2100 ft2)
including
o Egg
incubation (6 x 300 L conical tanks)
o Yolk sac incubation (5 x 700 L conicals)
o Larval rearing (8 x 2000 L circular tanks)
o S1, U1.
Marine finfish nursery (1800 ft2, 42 m3)
o S1, U2&3. 4480 ft2 greenhouse tank room with 2 x 100 m3
recirculation systems
o S1, U4. Recirculating marine broodstock facility (900 ft2, 44 m3)
o S2 A&B. 2 1100 m3 ongrowing systems each with 1920 ft2
greenhouses for recirculation systems
o MTI 1 General purpose aquaculture R&D building (11000 ft2)
o MTI 2 General purpose R&D greenhouse (1800 ft2)
o Generator /boiler room (800 ft2)
The hydraulic
circuits are supplied from freshwater wells and a saltwater intake.
There are over 80 fish tanks ranging from 250 to 1.5 million L in
volume. There are 10 recirculation systems, which can be run on either
salt or fresh water with temperature control systems (both heating and
cooling), oxygen storage and distribution system, solids filtration
systems and settling ponds. There are also office spaces and wet
laboratory areas. The systems currently hold marine finfish broodstock
(halibut and cod) and juvenile halibut.
There is currently a pilot scale recirculating marine hatchery facility
on site used to grow cod and halibut. Construction of a new 24,000 ft2
hatchery is underway and will have a capacity for rearing over
1,000,000 marine finfish juveniles per year. This will include further
broodstock holding capacity for multiple species, egg incubation and
early rearing systems, weaning, nursery live feed production, and
support systems. |
