Aquaculture Productivity is an R&D partnership between Blue Hill Hydraulics Incorporated and Great Eastern Mussel Farms.

The partnership performs hydrodynamic studies of aquaculture lease sites, assists with site selection and permitting, performs productive capacity studies, and provides consultation on the topics of aquaculture technology and husbandry practices.  

Aquaculture Productivity’s principal investigators are Carter Newell and John Richardson.

Carter Newell has 25 years of aquaculture experience working for Great Eastern Mussel Farms and being one of the founding members of  Pemaquid Oyster Company.

John Richardson has 15 years of aquaculture experience developing hydrodynamic models of lease sites and performing productive capacity studies.

The partnership is equipped to perform field studies with the latest generation of field data collection equipment and maintains a state-of-the-art computing laboratory.