Marine Biological Lab Receives Record-Breaking $25 Million Donation

Addison Antonoff |

A longtime visiting Marine Biological Laboratory scientist last month donated $25 million to the Woods Hole research center, marking the single largest funding gift in the organization’s 137-year history. 

Dr. Mark Terasaki, a cell biologist, will be giving the money in $5 million installments over the course of five years, and it will be used to bolster the laboratory’s basic infrastructure and salaries. The donation comes at a time of uncertainty for scientific research institutions, which are seeing funding cuts at the federal level. 

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Menemsha Fishmonger Sees Hope for Future in Blue Mussel Farm

Alex Elvin

The Vineyard’s first offshore blue mussel farm has a new owner with a long-term vision for the local fishing industry. Stanley Larsen, owner of Menemsha Fish Market, recently took over a shellfish grant for the continued operation of the aquaculture farm.

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Find Strength in Mussel Workshop

In an effort to spread the success of raising mussels offshore, local Vineyard commercial fishermen and shellfishermen are being invited to a special workshop on mussel farming on Friday, May 17 in Rhode Island.

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Mussel Farming

Mark Alan Lovewell

The first blue mussels on the experimental offshore mussel farm in Vineyard waters will be harvested in the coming weeks. The mussels are large enough to go to market, according to Scott Lindell, an aquaculture specialist with the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.

There are two small farms. One is north of Chilmark; the second is west of Noman’s Land. Two Island fishermen, Alec Gale of West Tisbury and Tim Broderick of Chilmark, are tending the farms with a 55-foot workboat, the Jane Lee, out of Menemsha.

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