Biography
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.
Research Interest
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
Biography
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.
Research Interest
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.
Biography
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
Research Interest
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