Tour the Texas A& M AgriLife Mariculture lab on Thursday, April 12, at 2 p.m.

The tour is held by The City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department as part of its H.E.L.P. series on health, ecology, lifestyle and preparation.

Meet in the Civic Center parking lot, corner of Ave. A and Cut-off Road, at 1:50 p.m. to carpool to the lab.

Space is limited so preregistration is required. Contact community programs coordinator Pam Greene at pamg@cityofportaransas.org or 749-4158 to reserve space.

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

All H.E.L.P. workshops are free and open to the public.