The University of North Carolina Wilmington's Aquaculture Facility is situated at Wrightsville Beach, southeastern North Carolina. Established in 1997, this research and educational facility currently consists of controlled-environment broodstock holding systems, a larviculture laboratory, a nutrition laboratory, an experimental hatchery with live feeds production systems, and a variety of experimental recirculating growout tank systems. Aquaculture program staff and student offices, analytical laboratories, and feed preparation laboratories are located at the nearby Center for Marine Science, Wrightsville Beach.
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