The final spending package for fiscal year 2018, passed by Congress on March 22 and signed by Pres. Trump on March 23, provides $65 million for the National Sea Grant College Program, which includes Connecticut Sea Grant and 32 other Sea Grant programs across the country.
Aquaculture
Cleaner Mystic River could give shellfishermen room to grow
When the sewage treatment plant on the Mystic River was upgraded in 2015, probably few community residents here imagined local shellfish farmers might benefit, let alone oyster and clam growers across the country. But that’s a possibility, depending on the results of a $300,000 federally funded testing project now underway.