The trū® Shrimp Company, an affiliate of Ralco, announced that it intends to build its first hatchery in Luverne, Minnesota. The hatchery will share a campus with the planned shrimp production facility, Luverne Bay Harbor. Luverne Cove Hatchery will provide for spawning and house larviculture tanks where small post larvae shrimp grow until they are mature enough to be transferred to a Harbor. The hatchery will be able to raise 2 million post-larvae annually, which is enough to supply two fully operational Harbors. “From a bio-security aspect we have been concerned about a hatchery being close to a Harbor. However, in our continuing development we have had an engineering and process breakthrough that enables the hatchery and Harbor to share the same campus.”
The University of Miami has produced a short video titled "The Business of Aquaculture," highlighting aquaculture research activities and opportunities at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. The video features Daniel Benetti, the Rosenstiel School's Director of Aquaculture.