Aquaponicos - San Patricio
- Project and production manager
2012 - maintenantProduction and project manager of a tilapia hatchery (600 000 eggs/month) and an aquaponic tilapia farm (tilapia grow out and basil, lettuce, tomatoe, melon) in El Salvador,
Central America. Project management including grow out tilapia with biofloc technology, construction of a second aquaponic system, design and set up of filtration systems for the RAS hatchery, design of a tilapia nursery (100 000 fry/year) in recirculating system (RAS).
ARDA (Association Réunionnaise de Développement de l'Aquaculture)
- Design of an optimized tropical RAS for Sciaenops ocellatus
2011 - 2011- Design of an optimized recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) for Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) at ARDA (Research and Development Aquaculture Centre), Reunion Island, France. Efficiency and cost comparison of different RAS (with a combination of sand filters, different type of bio filters, protein skimmer and air lifts); and designing an optimized RAS based on the obtained results.
- Helping to write guidelines of Red drum hatchery procedures at ARDA. Including: Breeders management (feeding, genetic renewal, biopsy and hormonal injection), Eggs storing, Algae production, Live prey production (rotifers Brachionus plicatilis, Artemia salina), Larval rearing, Nursery rearing, Pre-Ongrowing, Size-grading, transfers, RAS maintenance, Medicals treatment, Biosecurity in hatchery.
Wageningen University
- Master thesis: «The effects of nitrate-N concentration on performances of rainbow trout in RAS».
2010 - 2011Master thesis including literature review; set up and running a 2 months experiment; feed, faeces and fish body composition analyses for fat, ash, dry matter, energy and crude protein; statistical data analysis using SPSS 15 software; writing scientific report. Experience in daily maintenance of 6 independent RAS systems during 4 months 7 days/week.
2009 - 2009Project manager: 7 weeks of trials in a RAS hatchery breeding broodstock Penaeus Vannamei (seawater RAS system), in Ecuador. Including:
- experimental set up
- data collection on shrimps, eggs and naupliis
- data analysis
2008 - 2008Project manager: Including 6 weeks of literature review about shrimps in France and 6 weeks of trials in a hatchery breeding broodstock Penaeus Monodon, in Madagascar. Including:
- literature review
- experimental set up
- data collection on shrimps, eggs and naupliis
- data analysis
Pisciculture Font-Rome
- Technician in a Fish farm growing rainbowtrout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
2006 - 2006Technician position (feeding, cleaning tanks, sorting fish, removing dead fish...). Flow through system.
Formations
Wageningen University And Research Centre (Wageningen)
Wageningen2009 - 2011Msc Aquaculture and Fisheries, specialisation Aquaculture