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Page 1 of 2 USDA-NIFA-SBIR-009642 8.7 Aquaculture Hawaii Fish Company Inc.Aquaponics is a rapidly emerging form of agriculture poised to provide farmers a highly sustainableand profitable means of producing locally-grown nutritious food. The majority of commercialaquaponics farmers utilize deep-water culture (DWC) systems with floating rafts and usuallyfabricate their own rafts from construction-g ...

PROJECTSUMMARY Project Title: Overcoming Risks to Fully Commercialize Breadfruit Manufacturing and MarketingThroughaCooperativeFrameworktoSupportSmallDiversifiedFarmers PI: ShapiroDana Institution:Hawai'i'UluProducersCooperative Hawai'i'UluProducersCooperative(HUC)isanagriculturalcooperativeinHawai'i with 148current members across fourislandswhooperatesmalldiversifiedfarms.HUC's missionistorevital ...

The proposed work directly responds to USDA SBIR Research Priority 8.7 Aquaculture bydeveloping methods to accelerate maturity in Seriola rivoliana (a high-value marine finfish). Thiswill reduce generation time allowing for accelerated selective breeding programs. The objectivesof Phase II are to use hormonal and molecular tools to induce puberty and yield reproductivelymature broodfish at the ear ...

Our research is focused on developing and scaling up techniques to divert construction anddemolition debris wood waste (C&D) from landfills and re-use it as a feedstock to make sustainableaviation fuel and green hydrogen.This Phase II follow-on research will focus on a ten-fold scale-up gasification trial on actual C&Dwood waste taking it from a bench-scale reactor test to an integrated laboratory ...

Mahimahi have tremendous aquaculture potential with incredible growth rates well- established broodstock and hatchery procedures and ready acceptance by U.S. consumers.  However two constraints currently prevent commercial mahimahi culture: male aggression  and reduced growth performance in sexually mature females.     We intend to resolve these two im ...

Jun Innovations has developed a proprietary supercooling technology that preserves perishable materials at below-freezing temperatures without the formation of ice crystals. Foods are maintained in their natural state for weeks with the same taste, texture, nutrition, and moisture content they had before being supercooled. This technology offers a radically new food preservation method for consume ...

The current dependence of grouper and tuna aquaculture on "wet fish" diets poses challenges for the long term viability and scalability of such aquaculture in the U.S. and internationally. There is a recognized need for alternative feed formulations (those including agricultural oils and proteins, such as soybean meal, soy protein concentrate, wheat and corn gluten, canola, poultry and other anima ...

Pongee Channa sp. are an esteemed freshwater food fish in Asia, Hawaii, and domestic Asian seafood markets. Traditional customer preference is for a live product. However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banned the import and interstate transport of live Channidae in 2002. Therefore, the only options to market Hawaii-grown pongee outside of its established range on Oahu, Hawaii are as fresh chi ...

Low dissolved oxygen levels are the most frequent cause of catastrophic fish mortalities in aquaculture farming, resulting in substantial dollar losses of valuable aquaculture crops annually. To address this problem, the U.S. aquaculture industry most often uses floating paddlewheels and/or aspirating aerators for nightly or continuous aeration and circulation of aquafarm waters. However, power co ...

Mandates for biofuels have resulted in the significant increase of biodiesel production in rural communities. Hawaii's Jatropha biodiesel production will produce nearly 650-700 kg of residues, consisting of Jatropha seedcake and fruit hulls for every metric ton of seeds harvested for oil production. In addition, the biodiesel conversion process will produce another 30-50 kg of crude glycerin, ...