NMFS: New System at NOAA Lab Pumps Clean Seawater for Salmon and Shellfish Aquaculture Research
A new system is now supplying clean seawater to the NOAA Fisheries Manchester Research Station , a key laboratory of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Scientists at the station explore new aquaculture techniques and technologies, raise highly endangered salmon, and research ways of raising and restoring other declining species in the wild.
"The seawater system is like the heart, lung, circulatory system, and kidney of an organism," said Penny Swanson, a former division director at the Science Center who helped advance the seawater project...
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