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$10 million loan approved for closed-system tilapia systems

MUMS bill needs more support in Congress

Eberly heads Md. seafood office

Maryland Aquaculture Association reorganizing

‘Ease into aquaculture’ • Church Creek, Md., tilapia grower advises • The sign at E & M Farms Inc. near Church Creek, Md., advertises “breeders of waterfowl, waterfowl picking and butcher shop.” No where does it say . . . .

HyRock Farm ‘done in’ by toxinBy CAROL KINSLEY • Tony Mazzaccaro says HyRock Farm “has been done in by a critter we didn’t even know was there.” The “critter” — a microscopic toxic algae, Gyrodinium galatheanum — has left him heavily in debt. “We dug ourselves into such a financial hole, I don’t think . . . .

AQUA TOPICS
by Daniel Terlizzi
Water Quality Specialist
Maryland Sea Grant Extension Program

Oyster mortality

East Coast Live! starts Nov. 1East Coast Live! 2000, a conference set for Nov. 1 through 4 in Annapolis, Md., will highlight the diversity of the live aquatics . . . .