Samut Songkhram, Thailand
When I was a boy, about 9-10 years old, I loved watching "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" on TV. In one episode Cousteau was talking about urbanization, destruction of farmland, loss of farm productivity - all reducing food production on land, and forecast that in the future more food would be have to be produced in the oceans. From that point on, my ambition was to "grow food in the ocean" to feed people. I went to the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington for my M.Sc., with the intention of becoming an aquaculturist. However, once at the School of Fisheries, I met Professor Dr. John E. Halver when I took his first year class on fish nutrition. At that time I had no idea that he was known in the USA and elsewhere as "The Father of Fish Nutrition". I quickly became one of his best students, and then his teaching assistant for his feed laboratory and field trips for the next 9 years. As I was completing my Ms.C, Dr. Halver encouraged me to undertake my Ph.D. with him. So I did that from 1986 through 1992. I went on a couple of consulting trips for Dr. Halver, once to Italy in 1985, and again to Yugoslavia in 1987. In 1991, I joined Dr. Halver and Dr. Ronald W. Hardy on a 4-month FAO-funded consultancy to Bangkok Thailand, where I taught researchers how to use an extruder in a small pilot scale feed mill to make floating and sinking fish feeds. While in Bangkok, with Dr. Halver's reminders, I started writing my Dissertation. I also met my future wife during that trip. After turning in my dissertation to the UW in early 1992, I moved to Thailand. Experience in the Aquaculture Feed Industry in Thailand since 1992 Worked for Unicord Feed Company Limited, an Aquatic animal feed manufacturer from 1992 - 1995 Worked for Aquastar Company Limited, an shrimp farming organization and feed manufacturer from 1995 - 1996 Worked for Thai Luxe Enterprises Public Company Limited, an Aquatic animal feed manufacturer from 1997 - 2014. Since my retirement at the end of 2014 I have been working part time as a technical writer and consultant. I have also been involved in professional training activities about aquafeed nutrition and aquafeed milling with Progressus Agrischools. Most recently, in early 2025 I started a YouTube channel, FISHNUTRITIONEXPERT, which you can find at www.youtube.com/@FishNutritionExpert