Aug. 6, 2015: Encore- Aquaponics Innovation Center in Montello

This Thursday, August 6^th at 10 am, Route 51 will broadcast an encore of our show from May 14^th featuring the Aquaponics Innovation Center, a research facility which has an immediate goal of creating the first commercially viable walleye fish farming operation in the world. The center is a public-private partnership involving UW-Stevens Point and its Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility in Bayfield, and Nelson and Pade, an aquaponics company in Montello where the center is located.

Host Glen Moberg led a discussion with Rebecca Nelson and John Pade, owners of Nelson and Pade, and Chris Hartleb, UW-Stevens Point Professor of Biology and Director of both the Aquaponics Innovation Center and the Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility.