Articles

• Farm raises boutique oysters:
  Project shows business potential for oyster growers
• Program lands charter-boat operators in classroom
• Extension trains leaders
  to market foods online
• Volunteers create habitat
  on Deer Island
• Ole Miss School of Law wins environmental moot court competition
• Deborah Jefferson joins Sea Grant
• John Grigsby marks 10 years
• Group aims to encourage climate-adaptation efforts
• Facilitators learn about resilience self-assessment
• Kay Bruening retires after 20 years
• Girl Scouts to grow oyster garden
• From the Director

Sea Briefs is a report on the results of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.

Editor: Melissa Schneider

This newsletter is available in PDF format from:
masgc.org/seabriefs

MASGC supports applied, interdisciplinary marine science research, education and outreach efforts to foster the sustainable development and management of the Mississippi and Alabama coasts and nearshore ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico

Mississippi-Alabama
Sea Grant Consortium
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Phone: 228-818-8838
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Extension trains leaders to market foods online

Extension specialists and others who work with businesses in the seafood industry met at the Mississippi State Coastal Research and Extension Center to learn the basics about Mississippi MarketMaker. MarketMaker is an online tool that connects food producers, processors, retailers and more. It allows businesses or individuals to log in and find produce and seafood businesses in Mississippi or any of the 16 states that are members of MarketMaker. Alabama and Texas will be joining MarketMaker soon.

“MarketMaker is an interactive mapping system that locates businesses and markets of agricultural and seafood products in Mississippi, as well as in other member states,” said Ben Posadas, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant economist and Mississippi State University professor. “It provides an important link between producers and consumers.”

Participants at the workshop learned to help businesses create profiles, search for businesses and conduct market research on the MarketMaker site. The site is intended to open new markets for businesses to sell their products.

In an additional workshop, seafood producers, researchers and regulatory personnel worked with the site.
For more information or to find out which foods are available in Mississippi or other states, check out the site at http://national.marketmaker.uiuc.edu/.