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Ocean Career: Aquaculture Research Specialist at AIS
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- Ocean Career: Aquaculture Research Specialist at AIS A.I.S., Inc. (AIS) is a national scientific services firm supporting maritime activities requiring certification of compliance with environmental regulations as well as collecting data for use by Federal, State, Municipal, and other government agencies along the US coastline.
- AIS is looking for an Aquaculture Research Specialist to support the National Marine Fisheries Services’ (NMFS) Advancing the Quality and Understanding of American Aquaculture (AQUAA) Act, to establish research to develop sustainable marine aquaculture methods.
- In 2020, Executive Order 13921 (E.O. 13921) on Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth mandated establishment of two (2) Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) annually, which will position aquaculture activities in federally managed waters, which requires development of programmatic Environmental Impact Statements (pEIS) as required by the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA).
- The objective of this project is to provide scientific information in the topical areas of disease & biosecurity to support production of pEIS documents for the first two designated AOAs, updates of aquatic animal health plans, & advice for seafood trade biosecurity.
- Task 1 : Construct a database of scientific information on diseases of target aquaculture organisms & on agents affecting aquatic animal health & seafood biosecurity
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