Celebrating Aquaculture Week: Farming from Tide to Table

Aquaculture Week 2025 offers a chance to learn how marine aquaculture—or farmed seafood—is vital for supporting our nation’s seafood production and jobs on the water, enhancing coastal resilience, and more.

National Aquaculture Week celebrates increasing access to fresh seafood while protecting coastal resources. Seafood farming, if done responsibly as it is in the United States, is one of the most environmentally sustainable ways to produce food and protein. Marine aquaculture can help reduce our seafood trade deficit while uplifting coastal communities and economies.

Celebrate Aquaculture Week by learning about members of the aquaculture community who provide valuable jobs and increase access to fresh, sustainably sourced American seafood. Aquaculture is more than seafood production. It is about ecosystem stewardship, coastal communities, and economic opportunities.

Tide to Table Profiles

This year, we are highlighting five exceptional growers who represent a wide variety of seafood producers. From geoducks and abalone, to kelp and oysters, these Tide to Table profiles feature some of the many outstanding aquaculture operations in the United States.

Meet Holy Ground Oyster Company, Oyster Growers in Mississippi

After a career as a NOAA Fisheries observer in Alaska and the Gulf, Thomas Piecuch founded the Holy Ground Oyster Company—rooted in family values. He hopes to contribute to a sustainable and economically resilient seafood future in the state.

Meet Stonington Kelp Company, Seaweed Grower in Connecticut