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Somewhere off the Gulf of Mexico, a special kind of farmer releases a metal basket into the water and suspends it in the ocean to grow his hidden treasure — the ever-versatile oyster. Straddling the line between farmer and fisherman, the oyster producer takes great care in growing and collecting the pearls of the sea — the kind served with Tabasco and saltines.
The $437 million U.S. catfish industry is in need of better genetic and breeding technologies to be competitive with foreign imports. A team of hatchery scientists from the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station are studying hybrid catfish breeding practices to help improve reproductive efficiency and reduce production costs for catfish farmers.
An Auburn team is working to make catfish breeding more efficient and profitable.
Andrew Rypel will be the next director of the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, effective March 22. He comes from the University of California at Davis, where he currently serves as director of the Center for Watershed Resources and professor and Peter B. Moyle and California Trout Endowed Chair in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology.
