We will utilize our network of high schools, especially FFA programs, that have aquaculture / fisheries programs to recruit underrepresented youth to apply to Arizona and New Mexico community colleges with aquaculture programs and/or directly to the fisheries / aquaculture programs at the UA and NMSU. We will provide scholarships at the community college level, the undergraduate and graduate levels. Thourgh our extension contacts with industry and conservation agencies, we will develop and fund internships for our students as well.