Participants of the 2009 course will visit a practicing commercial shrimp farm, processing plant and commercial marine finfish farm. Other field trips will be taken to the Texas AgriLife Research Station and shrimp mariculture facility in Corpus Christi, where the zero water exchange and bait shrimp production R&D takes place, and to the TPWD/CCA Marine Development Center in Flour Bluff, where a variety of marine finfish are grown for stock enhancement purposes for the State of Texas.

UTMSI
750 Channelview Drive, Port Aransas, Texas 78373-5015:

UTMSI Visitors Center/Auditorium, Port Aransas, where the course meets:

FAML in Port Aransas, where the finfish lectures are held:
(For more information on these facilities, see the FAML web site.) Red drum fry: Cobia juveniles (photo courtesy Dr. G. Joan Holt): TAMU Shrimp Mariculture Laboratory, Port Aransas: The Coastal Conservation Association Texas Laboratory for Marine Larviculture: CCA/CPL Marine Development Center (photos courtesy R. Adami): Red drum and flounder Bowers Shrimp Farm in Collegeport: Shrimp harvest: Bowers Processing Plant in Palacios: Lone Star Aquafarm in Palacios (redfish producer; photos courtesy John Turner): Red drum harvest: Port Aransas, Texas: Aransas Lighthouse (photo courtesty Scott Holt):