Aqua-fish consulting group is a network of independent experts in aquaculture. Each one of us has a specific field of expertise and professional background to constitute a competitive and comprehensive team combining hands-on and scientific skills, biological and technical knowledges, productivity and social sensitivity. Below you can find our principal consultants.
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S. Picon: Sara is currently finishing her PhD in Aquatic Veterinary at the Aquatic Parasitology Research Laboratory, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling (UK) . She is a fish parasitologist with broad experience and have been mainly involved in prevention and control of infection the ciliate protozoan freshwater parasites, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis and the marine, Cryptocaryon irrritans both commonly known as "whitespot disease" a globally distributed parasite of freshwater and marine fish. She has been involved as a part-time research assistant in a series of industry-funded projects including large pharmaceutical companies like Novartis Animal Vaccines Ltd, government organisations such as the Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum (SARF) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and fish farming industry such as the British Trout Association (BTA).
Sara is very much an all-rounder, working on everything from initial tank system design and construction of the system to writing reports and projects proposals. In addition to her academic career, Sara has worked extensively with Oxfam and with the Spanish NGO "Campamentos Solidarios", with whom she visited Senegal in 2006 in order to take books and medicines into rural communities as well as fixing water pumps and assisting in crop-planting activities. Besides to her experience in aquaculture, she has 3 years experience working for a environmental consulting company, Inerco S.A. as the biologist in charge of the environment section with responsibility for developing an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for wind power installations
G. Monti: Giorgia has a M.Sc. degree in Veterinary medicine and a M.Sc. in Aquaculture as well as training in sustainable rural development, small scale integrated systems and market chains development. She has been working with tilapia and integrated systems, animal husbandry and periurban aquaculture in sub saharian Africa, Chile and Thailand, working with communitties and farmer organizations, also involving fair trade as alternative option for local and consumers overseas.
She is Specialist in project managment, hatchery design and fish profilaxis. She is collaborating with European Universities and international NGO's working for rural development.
E. Leclercq: Eric has an agriculture and food industry background with M.Sc in Aquaculture and is currently finishing a PhD in the Reproduction and Genetic group of the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling (UK). His research project, directly applied to the problematic of early sexual maturation in the salmon industry, is performed in close collaboration with the leading Atlantic salmon grower and involves extensive field sampling in a variety of commercial environment. Eric has previously been working in a state-of-the-art Atlantic salmon hatchery (UK) using recirculating, flow-through and cage systems.
He also has experience in the production of male monosex tilapia population, their semi-intensive rearing up to the adult stage and the development of explicit training and management manual for small-scale farmers (Reunion Island, France). Besides he is involved in the Sarnissa initiative (Sustainable Aquaculture Research Networks In Sub-Saharan Africa), which aims to set up a network of aquaculture research in developing African nations.
N. Pardo: Nacho is a Biologist with marine zoology specialty and M.Sc in Aquaculture with specific training in recirculation systems, water quality and fish breeding. His specialties are recirculation systems, Tilapia, ornamental fish culture, quarentine protocols and fish husbandry in general. He has been working in different public Aquariums around Europe (Aquarium Finisterrae, Spain, The National Marine Aquarium and Deep Sea World in UK and Blijdorp Oceanium in Rotterdam, Holland) and in several projects with Tilapia, ornamental fish and Catfish in Asia.
He had designed different aquatic systems for fish quarentine and display as well as close systems for fish culture. He have also been involved in projects for breeding ornamental fish in captivity to reduce fishing pressure on the wild.
I.siguero: Isacio is a Biologist with Zoology specialty and M.Sc in Aquaculture. He is specialist in larval culture of new species, recirculating systems and rotifers and phytoplankton culture. He has developed projects with Sole (solea spp), Redbanded seabream (Pagrus auriga) and Amberjack (Seriola dumerili) culture for different fish farms. Besides he hold a M.Sc in international cooperation.
