May 14, 2015: Aquaponics Innovation Center

This Thursday, May 14th at 10 am, Route 51 looks at the new 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 will lead 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. The program is scheduled to be eliminated as one of Governor Walker’s proposed budget cuts.