Mountain Aquaculture Research Center. The center was established within the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Carolina University in 1988. Its mandate is to foster biotechnologically-based research to support the economic sustainability of the aquaculture industry in Western North Carolina. Research activities of the center are of both a basic and an applied nature. They are conducted using fish-rearing facilities located in the Natural Sciences Building on campus and at the Lonesome Valley Aquaculture Research Station in Cashiers, North Carolina; and in collaboration with faculty and students in the Departments of Biology, and of Chemistry and Physics, with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service; and with the commercial trout industry. Areas of research interest include culture characteristics of all-female and/or triploid rainbow and brook trout; identification of biochemical measures and DNA markers associated with sex, stress, and disease resistance, and other genetic traits of commercial interest; and monitoring impact and control of fish farm effluents.

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