(B.S., Zoology, University of Nebraska; M.A., Zoology, University of Missouri; Ph.D., Oceanography, Florida State University) is former director of the Texas Sea Grant College Program and is a professor emeritus in the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University. Previous academic positions include University of Washington’s School of Fisheries, Texas A&M University’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Southern Illinois University’s Fisheries Research Laboratory, and the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. A fellow at the American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists and Past President of the World Aquaculture Society, he has published well over 100 refereed scientific articles; numerous abstracts, technical and magazine articles; and over 20 books and book chapters, including Principles of Warmwater Aquaculture (1979), Aquaculture in Texas: a Status Report and Development Plan (1981), Estuarine Ecology of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico (1984), Culture of Salmonid Fishes (1991), Culture of Nonsalmonid Freshwater Fishes (1993), Principles of Aquaculture (1994), Fisheries: Harvesting Life From Water (1995), Aquaculture in the United States: a Historical Survey (1996), and edited the Encyclopedia of Aquaculture (2000). He co-edited Responsible Marine Aquaculture in 2002 and is currently the editor-in-chief of World Aquaculture, the magazine of the World Aquaculture Society, and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Reviews in Fisheries Science.
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