He has devoted his career
to aquaculture and to expanding the aquaculture industry in the United States.
He has made significant contributions in research, education, and industry
development and has exhibited outstanding leadership within the field.
His research
interests within shrimp aquaculture have been wide-ranging, including
nutrition, health management, physiology, water quality, effluents, analytical
techniques, and microbial ecology. He may be best known for his work at the
Waddell Mariculture Center in South Carolina which established the research
basis for reduced water exchange, enhanced biosecurity, the development of
high-intensity shrimp aquaculture techniques in greenhouses using the biofloc
approach. While at the Waddell Mariculture Center, his reputation for applied
research, his assistance to the research world and leadership in industry was
well known.
He has served
US aquaculture in a variety of position: He has been a strong supporter of the
USAS, he was a Marine Scientist with South Carolina Department of Natural Resources,
Scientific Director for the Waddell Mariculture Center; Assistant Director for
SCDNR’s Marine
Resources Research Institute, and adjunct professor at several universities. He
served as WAS President, Chair of the Book Committee, and an Associate Editor
of the Journal of the World Aquaculture Society. In 2008, he became Aquaculture Research
Director for NOVUS developing and applying US products to provide effective
alternatives for feed cost reduction and health through nutrition for the
global aquaculture industry.
He has devoted
his life to furthering aquaculture, especially in ways that address world
hunger and that seek to develop commercially viable marine aquaculture in the US He has truly made a difference in developing technologies, training
students and industry professionals, and leading the industry by example.
Craig Browdy receives the Distinguished Service award at World Aquaculture 2013 |
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