Alongside, not instead of
This fills the gaps left by college programs, sea grant training, and extension, and names them when they are your better next step.
The school · courses and tuition
Stop rebuilding the same farm from scratch
Short, plain-language courses in what this industry already knows, with the source and the date on every regional fact. Buy one course, or buy a route and pay less than the courses come to on their own.
23 classes open today · 3 still being written · 11 routes
Region aware
Rules shown by state, with the agency and the date we checked.
Honest about recognition
No accreditation, no credit, no continuing education units. Completion records only.
Took a class with Jules already? Brackish Business at the Full Send level is the one to keep going with. Nineteen modules on running the operation as a business, with your projects read and answered personally. See Full Send.
Routes, bought as one
A route is every course for one kind of work, at one price. If you already bought some of them, every dollar counts toward the route.
Explore the industry
$125
Build a real foundation, compare roles, and choose where to go deeper.
$145 bought one at a time. The route saves you $20.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Aquaculture 101
- Finding Your Place in Aquaculture
- Seaweed 101
- Shellfish 101
- Finfish 101
You finish with: A personal role map, a vocabulary baseline, and a documented next-step plan.
Every course on this route is written and open.
Seaweed farm or harvest work
$495
Learn the organism, then choose farm operations or responsible wild harvest.
$535 bought one at a time. The route saves you $40.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Aquaculture 101
- Seaweed 101
- West Coast Seaweed Identification and Ecology
- Working Safely Around Water, Food, and Gear
- Records That Matter
- Seaweed Farm Operations
- Responsible Wild Harvest
You finish with: A sourced field log, day-of-work checklist, production record, and operations brief.
Every course on this route is written and open.
Shellfish farm work
$495
Focus on shellfish biology, growing-area decisions, grow-out, and traceability.
$535 bought one at a time. The route saves you $40.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Aquaculture 101
- Shellfish 101
- Working Safely Around Water, Food, and Gear
- Records That Matter
- Water and Biosecurity
- Hatchery and Nursery Operations
- Intertidal and Nearshore Operations
You finish with: A growing-area check routine, traceability set, production log, and operations checklist.
Every course on this route is written and open.
RAS technician or operator
$495
Concentrate on land-based recirculating systems and daily operating decisions.
$590 bought one at a time. The route saves you $95.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Aquaculture 101
- Finfish 101
- Recirculating System Operations
- Water and Biosecurity
- Hatchery and Nursery Operations
- Records That Matter
- Working Safely Around Water, Food, and Gear
You finish with: A monitoring plan, alarm-response exercise, maintenance schedule, and incident record set.
Every course on this route is written and open.
Hatchery technician
$495
Pair one species foundation with hatchery, water, sanitation, and record skills.
$565 bought one at a time. The route saves you $70.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Aquaculture 101
- Shellfish 101
- Hatchery and Nursery Operations
- Water and Biosecurity
- Working Safely Around Water, Food, and Gear
- Records That Matter
- Seafood and Seaweed Food-Safety Foundations
You finish with: A batch record, sanitation workflow, transfer checklist, and production exercise.
Every course on this route is written and open.
Open-ocean or nearshore operations
$495
Prepare for exposed or coastal work with the right species and system focus.
$540 bought one at a time. The route saves you $45.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Aquaculture 101
- Working Safely Around Water, Food, and Gear
- Records That Matter
- Siting, Permitting, and Public Process
- Intertidal and Nearshore Operations
- Open-Ocean Operations
You finish with: A site-day plan, weather decision record, gear checklist, and emergency scenario response.
Every course on this route is written and open.
Founder or farm manager
$695
Join species and system knowledge to siting, permits, money, people, and buyers.
$855 bought one at a time. The route saves you $160.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Aquaculture 101
- Seaweed 101
- Siting, Permitting, and Public Process
- Records That Matter
- Markets, Buyers, and Product Readiness
- Community Engagement and Social License
- Cooperatives and Shared Ownership
- Money for the Work: Grants and Community Funding
- Brackish Business
You finish with: A site screen, permit route, production calendar, enterprise budget, risk register, and business plan.
Every course on this route is written and open.
Processor or product builder
$445
Move from a species foundation into handling, records, buyers, and product readiness.
$490 bought one at a time. The route saves you $45.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Shellfish 101
- Seafood and Seaweed in the Kitchen: Safety and Handling
- Seafood and Seaweed Food-Safety Foundations
- Records That Matter
- Markets, Buyers, and Product Readiness
- Working Safely Around Water, Food, and Gear
You finish with: A process flow, hazard-awareness exercise, lot record, and buyer brief.
Every course on this route is written and open.
Community advocate or public-process participant
$225
Understand the field well enough to participate carefully and check claims.
$250 bought one at a time. The route saves you $25.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Aquaculture 101
- Siting, Permitting, and Public Process
- Community Engagement and Social License
- Seaweed 101
You finish with: A sourced issue brief, stakeholder map, public-comment draft, and claim-check record.
Every course on this route is written and open.
Co-op, collective, or community-owned operation
$325
Start or join something owned by the people doing the work, instead of by outside investors.
$385 bought one at a time. The route saves you $60.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Aquaculture 101
- Cooperatives and Shared Ownership
- Money for the Work: Grants and Community Funding
- Records That Matter
- Seaweed 101
- Shellfish 101
- Finfish 101
You finish with: A membership plan, a written way of deciding together, a funding map that is not only bank debt, and a first-year budget.
Every course on this route is written and open.
Kitchen, seafood counter, or food business
$425
Learn to handle and cook seafood and seaweed well, then take that into a working kitchen or counter.
$485 bought one at a time. The route saves you $60.
What is in it, and what you finish with
- Seafood and Seaweed in the Kitchen: Safety and Handling
- Seafood and Seaweed Food-Safety Foundations
- Cooking With Seaweed
- Preparing and Cooking Shellfish
- Cutting and Cooking Finfish
You finish with: A handling and storage routine, a filleting and shucking practice log, a cooked repertoire, and a food-safety vocabulary you can use at work.
3 courses still being written. They open to you as they land, at no extra cost.
See this route$425 for the whole route, opening once the last 3 courses are written. The courses on it that are open can be taken now, one at a time, and every dollar counts toward the route later.
Or take one course
Courses marked open are written and can be taken today. Pick a kind of work to narrow the list.
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Aquaculture 101
$25
The whole field in plain language: species groups, farm systems, roles, water, and vocabulary.
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Finding Your Place in Aquaculture
$45
Roles, routes, and what each one really asks of you, ending in a next-step plan of your own.
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$25
Seaweed biology, a regional field guide, life cycles, responsible harvest, farming, and where you fit.
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$25
Bivalves and crustaceans, growing-area rules, closures, farming and foraging with good manners.
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Finfish 101
$25
Saltwater and freshwater fish, how they are raised, welfare and health basics, and the industry today.
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By species
West Coast Seaweed Identification and Ecology
$95
Identify what grows where, read a shoreline, and keep a field log that holds up later.
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Seaweed Farm Operations
$125
Seed, lines, the season, the harvest day, and the records that carry a crop to a buyer.
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Responsible Wild Harvest
$95
Rules, limits, gear, cutting practice, and leaving a bed better than you found it.
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By how it is farmed
Hatchery and Nursery Operations
$125
Seed, larval and juvenile care, sanitation, transfers, and production planning.
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Read what is insideRecirculating System Operations
$150
Treatment loops, monitoring, alarms, biosecurity, maintenance, and incident response.
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Intertidal and Nearshore Operations
$95
Tides, gear, access, maintenance, and harvest logistics on the shoreline.
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Open-Ocean Operations
$125
Exposed sites, weather calls, vessel days, moorings, and working a long way from the dock.
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Water and Biosecurity
$95
What the water is telling you, how disease moves, and how to keep it out of your system.
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In the kitchen
Seafood and Seaweed in the Kitchen: Safety and Handling
$75
Cold chain, cross-contamination, storage, allergens, labels, and the records a kitchen keeps.
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Cooking With Seaweed
$95
Buying, rehydrating, seasoning, preserving, and Jules's own seaweed recipes.
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Preparing and Cooking Shellfish
$95
Receiving live animals, purging, shucking, steaming, and picking crab and lobster.
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Cutting and Cooking Finfish
$95
Whole fish to plate, with filleting diagrams and video, portioning, yield, and cooking by cut.
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Working skills
Working Safely Around Water, Food, and Gear
$75
Cold, tides, vessels, lifting, machinery, and the habits that get everybody home.
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Read what is insideRecords That Matter
$95
Observations, water readings, traceability, and evidence that survives a handoff.
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Read what is insideSiting, Permitting, and Public Process
$125
Who decides what, in what order, what it costs, and how to take part in the public process.
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Seafood and Seaweed Food-Safety Foundations
$125
Hazards, handling, lot records, and when a recognized outside course is required instead.
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Markets, Buyers, and Product Readiness
$95
Who buys, what they ask for, pricing, packing, and getting a product ready to sell.
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Community Engagement and Social License
$75
Neighbors, tribes, harbor users, and how a project earns the room it takes up.
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Read what is insideCooperatives and Shared Ownership
$95
Who owns the work: co-ops, one member one vote, patronage, shared gear and boats, and how a group decides together.
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Money for the Work: Grants and Community Funding
$95
Grants, revolving loan funds, patient and community capital, member shares, and what each one asks of you in return.
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Read what is insideBrackish Business: Aquaculture, Run as a Business
The full business course, with its own access levels.
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Before you buy
What we do not claim
These courses are not accredited. They do not carry college credit or continuing education units, and finishing one does not count toward an outside credential. Each course is still built the way a continuing education standard expects, with measured contact hours, written outcomes, assessment tied to those outcomes, a completion record, and a learner evaluation, so that can change honestly later. Supervised hours, licenses, and credentials come from employers, agencies, and colleges, and where a course prepares you for one, we name the issuer.
The Driftline rate
Driftline members pay the member rate on any course or route. No codes and no hoops. Every purchase is licensed to one person, so the rate exists to let your crew get their own access instead of borrowing yours.
Paying over time
Brackish Business can be split into 2 or 4 auto-charged payments at the same total, with no interest and no fees. Access opens with the first payment and stays open while the plan is current. You can pay the balance early any time.
Refunds, plainly
You have 14 days from the day you buy to ask for a full refund, and if your classroom opens during that window you get a fresh 14 days from the opening day. Whichever date falls later is the one that counts. After that the sale is final. Refunds go through Jules directly, by email or a quiet link in your dashboard.
The full course terms and privacy page apply to every purchase.