Extrusion, Fish Feed
Aquafeed.com
Who We AreHello, I am Suzi Fraser Dominy. I created Aquafeed.com in November 1999 to fill a gaping black hole in information for the commercial aquaculture feed sector - and to provide a means for aquafeed industry professionals to communicate with one another.
I became aware of a groundswell of interest in aquaculture feed throughout 15 years of editing and publishing magazines for the international animal feed and grain sectors, for a U.K.-based publishing company. By the middle of the 1990s it seemed aquafeed was all anyone in feed and agribusiness wanted to talk about: I was besieged with aquafeed questions and there was just nowhere to go to get ready answers. Indeed, the aquafeed sector had no real identity, falling somewhere between aqua farming and animal feed production.
In 1998 I moved from U.K. to Hawai'i, (married an aquaculture feeds processing research specialist!) and decided the time had come to create an information resource and marketing tool that would be widely read, offer current information of interest to the commercial aquafeed industry and provide a cost-effective medium for suppliers to get their message to their aquafeed clients. The result was Aquafeed.com.
In January 2001, I had the good fortune to be reunited with an old friend, John Brown, formerly the Technical Sales and Marketing director of Satake U.K. (formerly Henry Simon.) He, like me, was by then independent and I was delighted when he agreed to join me to handle the advertising sales on Aquafeed.com. As a milling engineer and experienced sales and marketing executive, John understands what our clients need from their advertising and marketing efforts.
The response has been overwhelming. In fact, our visitor numbers and the volume of information produced have grown so much that our original website became inadequate. So, with the help of our website maintenance partners, WebPageMaintenance, we relaunched our new format website at the end of 2002. Our aim is the same: to save you time, to give you the information you need to do your job and to provide the most visible and cost effective medium for suppliers to market their products and services to the aquafeed sector. Now, with our new website, we provide for the first time, an effective means for aquafeed manufacturers to market feeds to farmers with the FEED FINDER.
Zandra Andersen joined Aquafeed.com in July 2003 as our representative in
Scandinavia. With a degree in business management and a background in exhibition
operations management, Zandra is well equipped to help you make the best choices for product and company marketing on Aquafeed.com.
A native English speaker with a good command of Danish, Zandra will also be very happy to help perfect your English in your banners, articles or literature, for a truly professional presentation.
If your business is in Scandinavia, please contact Zandra for all advertising and editorial help: zandra@aquafeed.com
We are always here to help: please contact me if you have any problems with the website, want to contribute information or have suggestions on how we could do better. I look forward to hearing from you.
Suzi Fraser Dominy
editor@aquafeed.com
Ask the Experts
Rick Barrows
Expertise:
Feed Processing
Hatchery feed production
Forums:
Larval, Fry and Fingerling Feeds
Feed Ingredients
Dr. Rick Barrows is a research nutritionist working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Feed and Nutrition Laboratory of the Fish technology Center in Bozeman, Montana. Rick has been developing larval feeds and feed processes for a variety of freshwater and marine species for 16 years.
Bernard Devresse
Expertise:
Feed & Nutrition
Feed Processing
Forums:
Feed Ingredients
Feed Processing
Bernard Devresse has a background in biology and biochemistry and has more than 12 years of experience in nutrition and feed processing technology. He has extensive working experience in Latin America, Asia and the Mediterranean area.
He is the managing director of Bern Aqua, Belgium, manufacturers of feeds for fish and shrimp larvae and of specialised ingredients (nutriceuticals) for grow-out feeds. Bernard consults in feed formulation and feed processing worldwilde, with special emphasis on tropical marine species.
Delbert Gatlin
Expertise:
Feed & Nutrition
Forums:
Nutrient Requirements
Dr. Delbert Gatlin is a Professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Faculty of Nutrition at Texas A&M University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in aquaculture and fish nutrition, and conducts basic and applied nutrition research on a variety of warmwater fish species such as channel catfish, hybrid striped bass, red drum and tilapia.
Sean Tibbetts
Expertise:
Feed & Nutrition
Forums:
Feed ingredients and formulation
Feed processing
Sean Tibbetts is a member of the fish nutrition research group at the National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Marine Biosciences in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has a B.Sc. (Animal Science) and an M.Sc. (Animal Nutrition) from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Dalhousie University and a technical diploma (Aquafeed Extrusion Technology) from the Food Protein Research and Development Center, Texas A & M University. He has 8 years experience in basic and applied fish nutrition research and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal papers, seminar abstracts, technical reports and newsletter articles on nutrition and aquaculture of salmon, eels, haddock and oysters. He is a member of the Aquaculture Association of Canada and the Nova Scotian Institute of Science.
Chhorn E. Lim
Expertise:
Feed & Nutrition
Forums:
Dr. Lim is a Nutrition Scientist at the USDA-ARS, Fish Diseases and Parasites Research Laboratory, Alabama where he conducts research on nutritional aspects of immunology and disease resistance. He also serves as an Affiliate Researcher of the University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Affiliate Professor of the Auburn University Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, and graduate faculty member of Auburn University.
Dr. Lim has over 25 years of experience in aquaculture nutrition and feed development research for channel catfish, tilapia, marine shrimp, milkfish and common carp.
Dr. Lim has authored numerous publications and is a well known speaker.He has also performed consulting services in the Philippines, Indonesia, People's Republic of China, Cambodia, Guam, Greece, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Turkey and Venezuela.
Tom Barber
Expertise:
Tech Center
Forums:
Process optimization
Tom Barber is the Market Manager for Aeroglide Corporation's Food and Feeds Group. He has 11 years experience in thermal processing for food and feeds.He has two patents in thermal processing systems, and has published a number of papers and articles on drying and cooling for human foods, petfood and aquaculture feeds. Tom received his Bachelors of Science in Materials Engineering from North Carolina State University, and a Masters in Business Administration from University of Houston. He is a member of the American Feed Industry Association Aquaculture Committee, American Association of Cereal Chemists, and Pet Food Institute.
Galen J. Rokey
Expertise:
Tech Center
Forums:
Process optimization
Galen J. Rokey has been employed at Wenger Manufacturing Inc. for 27 years and is presently Manager of the Wenger Technical Center. During this time he has been involved directly with extruded aquatic feeds and in the development of laboratory tests to monitor the quality of raw materials and final product specifications. Galen participates in numerous Technology Transfer seminars worldwide for the aquaculture industry.
Warren Dominy
Expertise:
Tech Center
Forums:
Process optimization
Dr. Warren Dominy is the feed processing specialist at the Oceanic Institute, Hawaii. A University of Hawaii and Kansas State University graduate, Warren's focus is firmly on commercial application of aquatic feed processing solutions and as a consultant for OI has taught and lectured extensively and helped trouble-shoot in feedmills worldwide.
Sean Tibbetts
Sean Tibbetts is a member of the fish nutrition research group at the National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Marine Biosciences in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ask Sean a question in one of the following forums:
Feed ingredients and formulation
Feed processing
Aquafeed.com - 2003-10-26
