Yonathan Zohar (IMAGE)

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Yonathan Zohar

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Yonathan Zohar, professor of marine biotechnology at UMBC, stands with a tank in a land-based, sustainable aquaculture system at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology in Baltimore. UMBC and the Maryland Sea Grant are lead partners on a new $1.2 million grant from the National Oceanian and Atmospheric Administration to scale up these systems around the country. Land-based systems have the advantage of being sustainable; reducing transport costs, disease, and escape; and increasing yield. More U.S. aquaculture would also reduce the nation's growing seafood trade deficit, and help meet the rising global demand for seafood.

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