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.
Not sure what you need yet? Add classes to your plan as you read (the plan button sits at the bottom of your screen), and it will show you what kind of work your picks build toward, how close they get you to each route, and what it all comes to.
29 classes open today · 12 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. Self-paced classes end in a completion record; reviewed work earns a certificate of completion.
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The two most people come for
The flagship course
Brackish Business
Running the operation as a business, with your work read and answered by Jules.
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New to all of this
Explore the industry
Build a real foundation, compare roles, and choose where to go deeper.
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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 this route, 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.
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 this route, 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.
Shellfish farm work
$495
Focus on shellfish and abalone biology, growing-area decisions, grow-out, and traceability.
$535 bought one at a time. The route saves you $40.
What is in this route, 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.
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 this route, 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.
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 this route, 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.
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 this route, 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.
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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
about 8 h
The whole field in plain language: species groups, farm systems, roles, water, and vocabulary.
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Finding Your Place in Aquaculture
$45
about 8 h
Roles, routes, and what each one really asks of you, ending in a next-step plan of your own.
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Seaweed 101
$25
about 8.5 h
Seaweed biology, a regional field guide, life cycles, responsible harvest, farming, and where you fit.
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Shellfish 101
$25
about 9 h
Bivalves and crustaceans, growing-area rules, closures, farming and foraging with good manners.
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Finfish 101
$25
about 9 h
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
about 10 h
Identify what grows where, read a shoreline, and keep a field log that holds up later.
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Seaweed Farm Operations
$125
about 12 h
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
about 10 h
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
about 10.5 h
Seed, larval and juvenile care, sanitation, transfers, and production planning.
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Recirculating System Operations
$150
about 11 h
Treatment loops, monitoring, alarms, biosecurity, maintenance, and incident response.
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Intertidal and Nearshore Operations
$95
about 10 h
Tides, gear, access, maintenance, and harvest logistics on the shoreline.
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Open-Ocean Operations
$125
about 12 h
Exposed sites, weather calls, vessel days, moorings, and working a long way from the dock.
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Water and Biosecurity
$95
about 10.5 h
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
about 11.5 h
Cold chain, cross-contamination, storage, allergens, labels, and the records a kitchen keeps.
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Cooking With Seaweed
$95
about 12 h
Buying, rehydrating, seasoning, preserving, and Jules's own seaweed recipes.
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Preparing and Cooking Shellfish
$95
about 11.5 h
Receiving live animals, purging, shucking, steaming, and picking crab and lobster.
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Cutting and Cooking Finfish
$95
about 12 h
Whole fish to plate, filleting, portioning, yield, and cooking by cut.
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Working skills
Working Safely Around Water, Food, and Gear
$75
about 9 h
Cold, tides, vessels, lifting, machinery, and the habits that get everybody home.
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Records That Matter
$95
about 10 h
Observations, water readings, traceability, and evidence that survives a handoff.
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Siting, Permitting, and Public Process
$125
about 12 h
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
about 11.5 h
Hazards, handling, lot records, and when a recognized outside course is required instead.
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Markets, Buyers, and Product Readiness
$95
about 11.5 h
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
about 8.5 h
Neighbors, tribes, harbor users, and how a project earns the room it takes up.
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Cooperatives and Shared Ownership
$95
about 11.5 h
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
about 11.5 h
Grants, revolving loan funds, patient and community capital, member shares, and what each one asks of you in return.
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Brackish Business: Aquaculture, Run as a Business
The full business course, with its own access levels.
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Outdoors and hosting
Being a Naturalist: Quiet Practice, Field Journals, and Community Science
$95
about 12 h
Attention before expertise: quiet practice, a working field journal, and community science that helps the working coast.
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Guiding Tidepool Walks and Seaweed Foraging Tours
$95
about 12 h
Plan, lead, and teach small-group shore tours: safe, legal, welcoming, and honest about the ocean that day.
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Agritourism: Hosting Visitors on the Farm
$95
about 11 h
Turn a working farm into a place people can visit, learn, and buy from, with the safety, law, and storytelling underneath.
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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
The Driftline rate is right there at checkout, no codes, no hoops, and nothing to ask for. 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.