New Zealand's largest RAS system. R&D for Chinook Salmon. Various trials, genetics, physiology, feed trials. etc.

Project Manager, Live Feed Rotifer production. Enriched rotifer production of over 200billion per season for YellowTail Kingfish and Hapuku. Maintaining cultures 6000 per/ml in flow through system. Responsible for entire production, budgeting, quality control.Leading technician in feed trails Seriola lalandi, EWOS vs Ridley. Ocean Acidification trials Yellowtail KingfishCO2 tolerance trialsLeading technician RAS unit for Kingfish, densities up to 70kg per cubic meter - achieving fantastic growth rates, FCR's etc. Responsible for feeding regimes, system maintenance, quality control, system design, water quality etc.

Working on a flagship research project based on the monitoring of fish within the Murray-Darling river system, my specialist area being the Edward-Wakool river system.- Sampling/surveys of selected sites within the river using both traps and electro-fishing techniques. - Necropsies on various sample fish, including the removal of otoliths for age analysis – statistics.- Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) and Golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) breeding programs, egg collection, hatching, larval rearing thru to fingerling size, transfer to grow-out ponds, transfer on specialist truck to various re-stocking locations.- Data analysis, reporting (co-author, minor credit on published report). Boat operations (6m vessels).

Design of freshwater fishing lake (catch and release) Day to day management of the fishing lakeStocking, biomass surveys, maintenanceBroodstock collection and husbandry Hatchery upkeep and general maintenance/husbandry

System design and maintenance Public toursFeed trials (various reef fish)Coral breeding projectFish husbandry