Authors and contributors

Michael Bullock
Kampachi Farms co-CEO
La Paz, Mexico

He is an aquaculturist from the United States of America with more than 25 years’ experience in commercial salmon production in North and South America. He worked for 13 years as the Salmon Farming Division Manager for Aquinova Chile, where he grew its salmon production from 2 700 tons to 20 000 tons, while supervising more than 400 employees. He is the co-founder of Kampachi Farms, where he brings his fish production expertise to the fledgling open-ocean mariculture sector, to pursue the expansion of the longfin yellowtail (Seriola rivoliana) culture beyond Hawaii (the United States of America).

 

 

Francesco Cardia
FAO Aquaculture Project Manager
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

He has a background in aquaculture, primarily working for private companies as a technical consultant in the field of marine cage aquaculture. He has worked as a fulltime production manager in two large Mediterranean fish farms employing HDPE cages and on offshore floating platform. He has provided technical services to FAO in his field of expertise on several large projects, and he is currently managing an aquaculture development project in Saudi Arabia under an FAO / Saudi Arabia technical cooperation programme agreement.

Alessandro Ciattaglia
Badinotti Group SpA Aquaculture Sales Manager
Milan, Italy

He is a fish biologist with 25 years’ of experience in cage aquaculture. He has worked as a technical and sales manager in several cage supply companies, designing and installing more than 700 floating and submersible cages in the Mediterranean area. He has dealt with numerous mariculture projects located in offshore conditions, also achieving hands-on practice in mooring design. In 2009, he joined the Badinotti Group SpA as Sales Manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, working on cage net design and supply, using innovative materials for different aquaculture markets.

Alessandro Lovatelli
FAO Aquaculture Officer
Rome, Italy

He is a biological oceanographer and aquaculturist with 30 years’ experience in global aquaculture development working with FAO and other international organizations. His area of work in the FAO Aquaculture Branch focuses mainly on marine aquaculture development, transfer of farming technologies and resource management. He has been active in promoting mariculture technologies for a number of commercial species of bivalves, echinoderms, seaweeds and finfish through field projects, applied training programmes and publication of technical documents.

Fabrizio Piccolotti
Mariculture Expert
Orbetello, Italy

A biologist with considerable technical and hands-on experience in marine aquaculture, he has worked for the private sector as a fish production manager and as an international consultant. He has worked for several commercial fish farms in the Mediterranean, employing different technologies of submersible and floating cage, as well as farming in earthen ponds. He has provided technical services to FAO on a number of aquaculture development projects. He is currently managing a farm producing European sea bass and gilthead sea bream in Orbetello, Italy.

Trond Severinsen
AKVA Group ASA, COO-Export / CMO-AKVA Group
Bryne, Norway

Joined the AKVA Group in 1993 as General Manager for the company?s operations in Canada, a role he had until 2003 when he became CMO at the company’s headquarters in Norway. He has worked within sales, marketing, R&D and manufacturing related to technology for the fish farming industry since early 1984. Trond had previously worked for Sea Farm Trading (1984–1990), setting up their Canadian office in 1987. He later ran his own business there until 1993. He is a Norwegian citizen and resides in Stavanger region, Norway.

Neil Anthony Sims
Kampachi Farms co-CEO
Hawaii, United States of America

He is a marine biologist who has led teams in breakthrough research in marine fish hatchery technology and open-ocean cage culture, including the first integrated commercial fish hatchery and offshore cage operation in the United States of America.
At Kampachi Farms, he pioneered untethered open-ocean “drifter cages”, and he has recently completed trials in “over-the-horizon aquaculture”™, with an unmanned cage operation in deep waters and far offshore. He is the founding president of the Ocean Stewards Institute, an open-ocean aquaculture trade association.

Stendert Zuurbier
Ad.Aq. Srl General Manager
Brescia, Italy

He started working in mariculture during the 1980s, developing equipment for bivalve farming and installing the first floating cage system in the Mediterranean Sea. His technical background on mooring system design and development led him to the founding of Ad.Aq. Srl. The company produces and assembles a full range of products for offshore aquaculture. He specializes in the designs of offshore floating and submergible fish farms, engineering the systems based on site conditions and the fish species targeted.