1The NOAA/DOC Aquaculture Initiative and Policy and Its Implication for Recirculation Systems

Service (NMFS). Many aquaculture businesses dealing with many species have benefitted from NOAA research and extension activities. The National Marine Fisheries Service, originally the U.S. Fish and Fisheries Commission released billions of marine fish larvae in the late 1800's and it's successor, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, that became NMFS, contributed more technology and information base for the development of marine aquaculture or mariculture. The NMFS presently has two research laboratories devoted to aquacultur