Six finalists pitched creative business ideas to a panel of judges during UMBC’s fifth annual Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition (CBIC), held on April 25, 2018 in the new UMBC Event...
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Chesapeake Quarterly Story
Aquaculture Swims Ahead April 2018 • Volume 17, Number 1 Nicole Lehming...
posted 3 months ago
Improve Safety and Fish Farming Industry
Global demand for fish is growing quickly, but many species are already severely overfished, leaving scientists and industry experts searching for ways to more safely and efficiently farm fish. In...
posted 9 months ago
Works to Save world’s Oysters from Deadly Herpes Virus
Colleen Burge, UMBC assistant professor at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, made a splash with her new article in The Conversation warning of the danger posed by a herpes...
posted 9 months ago
September 10, 2017 8.40pm EDT
Oysters, a delicacy eaten on most coastlines of the world, are a multi-billion-dollar industry. They also are intriguing to study from a health perspective. Oysters feed by filtering tiny...
posted 10 months ago
Baltimore, MD (August 15, 2017) Working in assembly line fashion, a team from the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) prepared about 15,000 European sea bass juveniles for...
posted 11 months ago
Dr. Yonathan Zohar, with aquaculture biologists, Jorge Gomezjurado and Odi Zmora, next to the tuna larval rearing tanks by Erich Luening May 30, 2017 There’s a lot of research going into...
posted 11 months ago
A new technology that sterilizes farmed salmon
New fish Sterilization method ready for trials A new technology that sterilizes farmed salmon by temporarily switching off a gene at early-life stage is ready for large-scale trials....
posted 11 months ago
A team of IMET-UMBC researchers has made history by successfully raising Atlantic bluefin tuna from eggs to juvenile stage in a recirculating, land-based mariculture system for the first time in...
posted 11 months ago
Ratcliffe Environmental Entrepreneur Fellowship (REEF) Program at IMET Ryan Powell had an inkling early on that he could start his own business. As a graduate student at the University of...
posted 12 months ago