Job Type
Technical Advice & Consulting
Activities
Research, Consultant, Professor
Sea regions of study
Caribbean Sea
South Atlantic Ocean
South Pacific Ocean
Skills
Marine fish culture, aquaculture engineering
Comment(s)
43 yeas of experience
Professional expertise subject: Ichthyology and Fish culture.
B.Sc. 1969 Biological Sciences, University of Havana, Cuba.
M.Sc. 1974 Ichthyology, University of Havana, Cuba.
Ph.D. 1980 Ichthyology and Fish culture, University of Havana, Cuba.
8 postgraduate courses and training received at Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Uzbekistan, The Philippines and Cuba.
Research category: Senior Research Officer
Teaching category: Titular Professor
University courses given: 40 of 13 subjects.
Postgraduate courses given: 42, including 39 internationals or of regular M.Sc. or Ph.D. programs in several countries.
Director of 8 university thesis, 7 M.Sc. theses and 8 Ph.D. theses.
16 national advisories and 28 international advisories.
7 international consultancies.
Reviewer of 17 journals, 12 of then internationals.
Member of 6 scientific societies, including the New York Academy of Sciences.
Has occupied 11 institutional responsibilities, including more than 4 years as Research Director at the National Aquaculture Enterprise (Cuba) and Head of the Genetic and Reproduction Laboratory and Marine Fish Pilot-scale plant at the Research Centre for Food and Development (Mazatlan, Mexico).
Director of 14 research projects in Cuba and 14 international projects.
Has designed 25 research, pilot-scale or commercial aquaculture facilities, two for FAO projects and 12 in other countries, including the first pilot-scale hatchery for tropical marine fish in Mexico (one million US dollars) at Mazatlan (Mexico), and another a pilot-scale and commercial fish production plant (including the hatchery) for the Nicaraguan Fishery and Aquaculture Institute, thorough a Norwegian project in 2008.
Has attended to 50 scientific meetings, 42 of the internationals, as author or co-author of 103 papers and presentations.
Has 110 publications, among them 7 in press, 5 book chapters and 3 books, one of them the first one written and published in Spanish by the World Aquaculture Society.
Some of the most outstanding achievements are: a) contribution to the knowledge of the fishery biology, taxonomy and distribution of 11 important coastal finfish species, with recommendations on their fisheries; b) Assessment of juvenile resources of main finfish coastal lagoon species, capture sites and seasons, catching gears and methods, as well as their mass handling and transportation; c) assessment of criteria and methods for marine finfish species selection for tropical Latin America and the Caribbean; d) 14 finfish species controlled reproduction techniques, of them 9 at pilot or commercial scale; e) development of mass juvenile production technologies (maturation and spawning of breeders, incubation of eggs, larval rearing, live food culture and nursery) of 8 species at pilot-scale with the total production of nearly one million juveniles; pilot-scale development techniques for mass sea water adaptation of tilapias and their rearing in coastal lagoon fish pens up to commercial size and their exportation to Japan.
