Mariculture lab tour slated for Friday, March 2

The Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department presents its next tour of the Texas A&M AgriLife Mariculture lab on Friday, March 2, at 2 p.m.

Participants need to meet in the civic center parking lot at 1:50 p.m. to carpool to the facility on Port Street.

The tour is free, but pre-registration is required as space is limited. Contact Pam Greene at pamg@cityofportaransas.org or 749-4158 to reserve a spot. e

Th lab develops and commercializes shrimp and sea urchin farming industries for Texas and the U.S., develops sea urchin feed and production technology for biomedical and ecotoxicological research; develops starfish feed and production for regeneration and stem cell production and evaluates fishery processing, biofuel, biodiesel and grain crops as nutritional replacements in shrimp feeds.