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SEAFOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Sea Grant researchers
have developed lower-cost, more rapid methods for measuring
PCBs and mercury in fish. The new methods cut costs from
$500- $1,500 to approximately $50 per sample and can deliver
results in days, rather than weeks or months.
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Sea Grant Impacts…
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The Issue:
The U.S. Seafood industry faces many challenges and opportunities as it
enters the 21st century. These challenges include an increasingly
competitive global marketplace, complex trade policies, strict regulations,
rising energy costs and a limited seafood supply. Change, however,
also brings new opportunities to expand markets, form strategic alliances
and advance innovations that can lower production costs, create new products,
add value to existing ones, increase safety and reduce waste. In
the new seafood era, science and education have become cornerstones for
maintaining the vitality of the nation’s $27 billion seafood industry
and its 250,000 workers.
Sea Grant:
The Sea Grant network is helping the industry increase quality and safety,
add value, lower costs and expand seafood supplies and markets.
Sea Grant has more than 30 years of experience working in nearly every
state and involving every type of seafood product–a proven track
record of collaboration by university research and extension personnel
with business, government, research laboratories and consumers.
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