Aquatic Facilities

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Facilities

Cooperative Extension County Professionals

All ACE Faculty & Staff

Employee Resources

School of Agriculture & Natural Resources Disability Statement

USDA Non-discrimination Statement

Facilities

Kentucky’s only dedicated aquatic research complex, the Aquatic Research Center (ARC) includes 33 research ponds (24 at 0.1 acre; nine at 0.05 acre); a 3,000-square-foot hatchery for spawning, holding, and experimental tanks; and a 3,500-square-foot nutrition laboratory with a wet lab for aquarium studies.

Completed in 2005, the classroom/multipurpose building supports instruction, research, library resources, and distance learning, and houses the Fish Disease Diagnostic Laboratory with incubators, microscopes, and video microscopy.

In 2012, the 14,400-square-foot Aquatic Production Technologies Laboratory opened to support controlled-environment, year-round production research across multiple species. This indoor, closed-system facility includes intensive recirculating systems, a water-quality lab, and a state-of-the-art genetics lab used for student research and teaching.

Also on site is a 4,000-square-foot office/laboratory building—the program’s original, converted pole barn—with a genomics lab, offices, and conference/classroom space.

Current species under investigation include largemouth bass, channel catfish, hybrid striped bass, tilapia, koi, paddlefish, freshwater prawns, Australian redclaw crayfish, saltwater shrimp, flounder, and freshwater mussels.