rom 1985 to 1991, Kentucky State University's aquaculture research program was entirely research and Extension. In 1992, Kentucky State began offering classes in aquaculture, adding academics to the program. In 1999, the Division of Aquaculture was named Kentucky State's Program of Distinction by the Kentucky Council on Post-Secondary Education.

The primarily thesis-based Master of Science in Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences fully integrates academics with research with the goal of increasing the knowledge base in aquaculture, farm income, and the productivity of on-farm water resources in Kentucky and around the world. Additionally, Kentucky State aquaculture Extension professionals disseminate research information to producers in a useful and understandable form. Kentucky State's 14-acre Aquaculture Research Center (ARC) in Frankfort, Kentucky, is the only facility of its kind in the commonwealth. Facilities at the ARC include 33 research ponds; a hatchery with spawning, holding and experimental tanks; the office and laboratory building, with a histology laboratory, offices, and conference/classroom space; a nutrition laboratory with a wet lab and analytical lab; two greenhouses; a 120,000-gallon, 24-tank pond microcosm facility; a multipurpose building with a fish disease diagnostic laboratory, a processing room for food science research, and a videoconferencing facility; and a new production technologies and genetics laboratory, which contains one of the only replicated aquaponics research systems in the U.S. For more information about the Aquaculture Research Center, contact Dr. Ken Semmensken.semmens@kysu.edu

Kentucky State's 14-acre Aquaculture Research Center (ARC) in Frankfort, Kentucky, is the only facility of its kind in the commonwealth. Facilities at the ARC include 33 research ponds; a hatchery with spawning, holding and experimental tanks; the office and laboratory building, with a histology laboratory, offices, and conference/classroom space; a nutrition laboratory with a wet lab and analytical lab; two greenhouses; a 120,000-gallon, 24-tank pond microcosm facility; a multipurpose building with a fish disease diagnostic laboratory, a processing room for food science research, and a videoconferencing facility; and a new production technologies and genetics laboratory, which contains one of the only replicated aquaponics research systems in the U.S.

For more information about the Aquaculture Research Center, contact Dr. Ken Semmens a ken.semmens@kysu.edu