Dr Beni Giraspy Daniel Azari is a commercial aquaculturist, currently working as the Principal consultant of Seacucumber Consultancy Pty. Ltd., Queensland. He is responsible for the development of Sea Cucumber Consultancy’s unique commercial production technologies for the commercially valuable sea cucumbers. He is a qualified commercial marine biologist with more than 16 years experience in commercial sea cucumber aquaculture and research and development in Australia, Republic of Maldives, Malaysia, India and the Middle East. He has been a project/hatchery manager and consultant, producing millions of hatchery produced sea cucumber juveniles for commercial farming and sea ranching operations in different countries. Dr Giraspy has a thorough understanding and experience with designing and utilising different aquaculture systems for tropical and temperate conditions.

Sea cucumber Project feasibility study, site selection, selection of sea cucumber species for commercial production, Hatchery design and operation, Facility and equipment, Broodstock acquisition, maintenance and conditioning, Intensive larval rearing and settlement cues methods, Health management and sea farming and sea ranching, Harvesting, processing, Food safety and quality and Marketing

Dr. Newman is experienced in many facets of the science of aquaculture and many allied scientific disciplines. He has worked with banks, governments, insurance companies, university researchers, venture capitalists and equity firms, farm owners, farmers, processing plants, NGOs and others at all levels of the process with multiple species. He is a Fish Health Official for Canada, a Title 50 USFWS certifying official, has licensed two of the six drugs currently approved for sale in the US into aquaculture with the FDA (formalin and tricaine), licensed multiple vaccines for fish in the US and Canada with the USDA and Ag Canada, has administered more than a million dollars in grants, is HACCP, ISO 22000 and SA 8000 trained, is an auditor for the ACC, qualified to audit multiple fish and crustacean species at the farm, hatchery and processing plants and has extensive knowledge of pathology, animal husbandry, ecology, genetics, immunology, biotechnology, microbiology (environmental, food and water), fermentation science and physical chemistry. He holds one patent and has developed many products for AquaInTech, Inc., designed to promote sustainability in farmed fish and shrimp.

Dr. Newman writes blog for Seafood Source and writes regular articles on all facets of aquaculture for a variety of magazines. Some of these are in the publications link. Seafood Source.com offers a wide range of free information on fisheries and aquaculture related activities.

Dr. Hyun SigLim is currently working as a professor at Pukyong National University in the department of fisheries, and he had 29 years experience in the feild of aquaculture & fisheires

Monitoring of benthic community in Taean area after Hebei Oil spill, study of the biodiversity in Korean tidal flat for nomination of UNESCO World Heritage,long-term monitoring of benthic communities in Korean coastal waters

Rui A. Gonçalves, holds the position of Scientist – Aquaculture in the Research & Development of BIOMIN Holding where his main focus on Mycotoxins research in aquaculture species. Rui holds a BSc degree in Marine Biology and Biotechnology, followed by a MSc in Aquaculture and a Post graduation in Pharmaceuticals sciences. Gonçalves worked for one of the major Gilthead Seabream and Seabass hatcheries in Europe where he was responsible for the larval rearing and weaning. Later he focused his objectives on nutrition of new species for aquaculture at University of Algarve, Being involved in several projects for determination of nutrient requirements for Solea senegalensis Sepia officinalis through radioactive (14C) tube-feeding methods.

Aquaculture & Fisheries

Pedro M. Rodrigues has a PhD in Chemistry from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is presently a Professor at University of Algarve, Portugal since 2000 and a member of the Center of Marine Science of the Algarce. He has been working in the use of proteomics in Aquaculture to access fish quality and welfare for the past 10 years and he has published 32 papers in reputed journals, 2 book chapters and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

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Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Senior Nutrition Adviser, leads a global programme on “Agriculture for Improved Nutrition and Health”, focusing on aquatic agriculture systems and supply of essential micronutrients from common small fish and other aquatic animals. She has worked within the area of food and nutrition security in many low-income countries in Africa and Asia, setting up research projects, designing and implementing programmes and assisting with capacity building of universities and national research institutions, as well as advising governments and international and regional agencies.

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Dr. Gunalan is currently working as a professor at Pukyong National University in the department of fisheries, and he had 25 years experience in the feild of aquaculture & fisheires and more than 25 publications he have, he have attended 12 more international conferences

• Having experience in field of shrimp culture for the past 16years. • M. Phil., - Research work on “Status of shrimp farming along the Southeast coast of India, Tamil Nadu” • Ph.D., -Research work on “Studies on the nutritive value and culture of white leg shrimpLitopenaeus Vannamei(Boone, 1931)” • Involved in hatchery maintenance as well as technical work part on shrimp seed production from 1999 to 2006 • Having experience on making remedies for problems during critical conditions of shrimp hatchery and grow out culture.

Dr. W.M.T.B. Wanninayake is currently working as a chairman of Ocean University of Sri Lanka, and he have experience of more that 30 in aquaculture & fisheries, he have more than 45 publications.

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Lakshman Nayak holds a Ph.D. degree in Marine Sciences (Marine Biology). At present he is working as a professor in Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University. He has interest in fisheries and pollution studies. He has been teaching in marine biology, ichthyology and fishery biology, marine invertebrates, aquaculture, fisheries technology and marine ecology since 1983. He has guided 14 doctoral students, 32 M.Phil. students and one D.Sc. student. He has more than 70 publications in national and international peer reviewed journals to his credit. He has acted as a member of the Academic Council and Chairman Board of Studies of this University. He has participated in 12 international and 45 national conferences/seminars and presented papers. He has visited Singapore and Australia etc. for presenting research papers in international conferences and chair several technical sessions of national seminars. He has served as a reviewer of different journals and member of professional bodies like life member of the Zoological Society, member of the techno sciences publications etc. During 2015-2016, he has been appointed as the observer of the UGC NET and JEE main by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

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