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For the latest forecasts and critical weather information, visit weather.gov.

DYK NCCOS siting has been used to successfully permit all of the nation’s first offshore aquaculture farms?

An overhead image of giant kelp growing at the Ocean Rainforest farm in CaliforniaNCCOS uses spatial data and models to inform individual aquaculture operations, assisting industry by informing business planning and making permitting more efficient. 

Our detailed site assessments identify environmental parameters involved in siting, including physical (e.g. coastal topography, bathymetry, sediment type), chemical (dissolved oxygen, turbidity, organic matter) and biological (chlorophyll, harmful algal blooms, predators) factors, as well as the nutrient discharge and environmental effects of aquaculture operations.

https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/page-attachments/One-Pagers/NCCOS-Aquaculture.pdf

Photo courtesy of Javier Infante