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AL DCNR/Marine Resources Division

Alabama DCNR - Marine Resources Division Claude Peteet Mariculture Center Gulf Shores, AL

Colonel Scott Bannon Division Director

Where are we? 4,342 miles as the crow flies

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Hatchery Facility

• Intensive Culture

–23,000 square foot wet lab –Broodstock conditioning –Incubation –Larval/Fry rearing

• Flatfish specific systems

–Live food culture

• Rotifers and artemia

–Analytical laboratory –Cold storage facilities

• Extensive Culture

–35, 0.2 acre ponds –HDPE lined

Broodstock Conditioning Incubation / Larviculture B Larviculture C (Flatfish) Incubation / Larviculture A

Temporary Holding / Quarantine Analytical Lab Cold Storage Live Food Culture

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Water Sources

Full Strength Sea Water

• Pumping Station at Gulf State Park
• Two, 60-hp Grinder Pumps
• Moves water approximately 3 miles to

facility

• Salinity 26-34 ppt
• Remote Operated

Brackish Water

• Pumping Station on the

Intracoastal Water Way (ICW) at the MRD boat basin

• One, 15-hp grinder pump
• Salinity 3-20 ppt
• Manually operated

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Historical

• Spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus)
• Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus)
• Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica)
• Red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus)
• Striped bass (Morone saxatilis)
• Gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis)
• (1973) Original facility constructed

–35 0.5 ac ponds, wet lab building –Low salinity ground water

• (1986) HDPE pond liners installed
• (1995) Pump installed in adjacent

Intracoastal Waterway for greater quantities of consistent brackish water

• (1999) Greenhouse construction with

Recirculating Aquaculture Systems

• (2004) Gulf of Mexico pump and pipe

line construction (2.4 mile distance). Hurricane Ivan destroyed the pump and intake in 2004. Rebuilt in 2009.

• (2013) New hatchery/wet lab

construction

• (2020) Oyster Hatchery

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Current Species Cultured

Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) Florida Pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) Southern Flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea Virginica)

Partnerships and Funding

• Funding:

–Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

• Marine Resources

Division –Wildlife & Sport Fish Restoration Program (WSFR) –National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) –Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA)

• Partnerships:

–CCA Alabama –Auburn University

• School of

Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences

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QUESTIONS?