Aquaculture
Meet the Stakeholders
Pier Antonio Salvador: A Local to Global Approach to Sustainable Aquaculture
Pier Antonio Salvador is on a mission to educate people about the value of trout farming and what is needed to ensure that the industry grows sustainably. He tackles this from every angle possible, including in his hometown and at a global scale. Read more about Pier.
Trygve Berg Lea: All Ears
Listen and learn. That's Trygve Berg Lea's approach to creating salmon aquaculture standards. "I’ve heard a lot of ideas and opinions, all which have helped me broaden my perspective on what the salmon industry needs,” he says. Read more about how Trygve, a longtime employee of Skretting, is influencing the development of the Salmon Aquaculture Dialgoue's standards. Read more about Trygve.
Mary Smith: Food Aficionado turned Seafood Marketing Guru
Mary Smith loves food. She has sold it and cooked it for a living. Now she dedicates her life to ensuring that seafood, one of her favorite foods, is raised without harming the environment. Read more about Mary.
Israel Snir: Investing in People, Not Just Tilapia
For Israel Snir, farming tilapia is not just about producing a high quality source of protein. It's about helping communities grow and prosper. Read what he is doing at Regal Springs to raise the bar on social issues related to farming.
Jack Morales - A lifetime of fish
Jack Morales spent countless hours as a child helping his mother sell fish at a market in their neighborhood. What he was most curious about was where the fish came from. The answer he was most eager to hear from his mother was that the fish would stop coming. Read more
Meet Dr Petter Arnesen
Long before aquaculture was on the agenda at seafood conferences and featured regularly in seafood trade publications, Dr. Petter Arnesen accepted his first job in the nascent field of aquaculture. “It’s quite simple,” the soft-spoken Norwegian said during an interview in Chile. “If we protect the environment, the fish will be happy. If the fish are happy, the people will be happy.” Read more
A Passion for Molluscs
Joth Davis' life has been consumed by molluscs for almost 40 years. Impressive, especially for somebody who is only in his early 50s! As a child, one of his hobbies was digging for oyster shells at a Native American midden near his home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. When he was in high school, he packed oysters during the Christmas holidays for the Cotuit Oyster Company. During his late teen years and 20s, he studied molluscs (and, more broadly, environmental science) at college and graduate school, worked at several marine labs, and helped raise oysters at a hatchery. Read more
Belize “Grandma” Dedicates Her Life to Shrimp Farming and the Environment
Linda Thornton is addicted to Belize. She moved there from her home state of Illinois 24 years ago. At the time, she was told by some people that she wouldn’t last a week in this relatively remote and quiet country. Read more
Patrick Bowe: Hooked on Sustainability
Patrick Bowe is fascinated with how things work and how to make them work better. That includes the production of seafood. Read what Patrick, an expert in fish feed, is doing through the Dialogues and other endeavors to make aquaculture more sustainable.
Sustainable Aquaculture: More than Just a Science Experiment
What started as a science experiment in college has become Corey Peet's life. He's moved from the lab, where he studied salmon and sea lice, to the international aquaculture arena, where he is engaged in four Dialogues. What motivates Corey to dedicate his career to aquaculture?
Mary Turnipseed: Thinking Big About Seafood and Conservation
Mary Turnipseed likes to think big. That's why she is helping to create global standards for tilapia farming and a global vision for sustainable seafood. Read what motivates Mary to simultaneously help the aquaculture industry and conserve nature.
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