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2025 Aquaculture Report

  • Writer: Chris
    Chris
  • Sep 16
  • 1 min read
Trey O'Donnell, LOC Intern Class of 26 helps load up this year's seed for its first round of processing. LOC enjoys sharing the experience of growing oysters with students from Virginia Beach's Environmental Studies Program. As you will see in the VIMS infographic, finding local employees remains the top challenge identified by growers.
Trey O'Donnell, LOC Intern Class of 26 helps load up this year's seed for its first round of processing. LOC enjoys sharing the experience of growing oysters with students from Virginia Beach's Environmental Studies Program. As you will see in the VIMS infographic, finding local employees remains the top challenge identified by growers.

A year ago, we presented information from the Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center (AREC) at Virginia Tech, which detailed the economic impact of Virginia's seafood industry. To quickly revisit this, you can watch the video here.


The AREC report highlighted the total economic impact of Virginia's shellfish industry, which exceeded 1.1 billion in 2019. Recently, the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) released findings focusing on the "gate value" of Virginia's shellfish industry, estimated at 81 million.


Although these findings are separated by several years, and the gate value is impressive, it's clear that the downstream effects of Virginia's shellfish industry are where the majority of economic benefits are ultimately realized.


LOC utilizes"containerized" methods: a combination of rack & bag and bottom cages.
LOC utilizes"containerized" methods: a combination of rack & bag and bottom cages.






 
 
 

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