Funding for this research was provided by:
Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center (Project No. 15-11)
USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) (2014-70007-22546)
Sigma Xi Grants-in Aid of Research
Woman's Seamen's Friend Society of Connecticut
The Francis Rice Trainer Endowment Fund to the Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Connecticut Museum of Natural History
The Ronald Bamford Fund to the Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The University of Connecticut Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship