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The University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin provides aquaculture business incubation services for a variety of marine species.
Updated: January 16, 2020
Kingfish Zeeland to begin fish production at UMaine’s aquaculture incubator
COURTESY / KINGFISH ZEELAND
Seen here are yellowtail kingfish produced at Kingfish Zeeland facility in the Netherlands. The company is partnering with the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin to build fish broodstock.
By Staff
The Dutch company Kingfish Zeeland, which hopes to build an aquaculture facility in Jonesport, may get started on it at the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin.
The center will provide business incubation services for the company as it develops a broodstock of yellowtail kingfish and scales for production at the proposed facility, according to a news release.
“We see building an early and strong relationship with the University of Maine and the Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research as an asset to Kingfish Zeeland as we scale in the U.S.,” CEO Ohad Maiman said in the release. “With this contract, UMaine will serve as an important strategic partner for our team here in Maine.”
The Netherlands-based company produces antibiotic-free Dutch yellowtail in the province of Zeeland and is recognized as an industry leader, with Aquaculture Stewardship Council and Best Aquaculture Practices certifications.
Last November, Kingfish Zeeland announced plans for a proposed $110 million land-based aquaculture facility in Jonesport, and in December secured funding for developing it.
Kingfish Zeeland is in the early design and engineering phase for its proposed facility in Jonesport, to be located near Chandler Bay on Route 187.
When the company began in the 2015, Kingfish Zeeland partnered in a broodstock selection program with Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Megan Sorby, an operations manager for Kingfish Zeeland, says that strategic partnership was important to the early success of the Netherlands operation.
“It’s our goal to replicate that success with our University of Maine partners here in the U.S.,” Sorby said in the release. “We are working with an existing broodstock of yellowtail at CCAR. This partnership will allow us to expand this broodstock and build up a hatchery as we move forward with our Maine facility.”
The center provides business incubation services to new and expanding aquaculture companies. Kingfish Zeeland is one of several companies currently using its hatchery and business incubation services.
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