Aquatecnics

Ed's aquaculture career stretches back to 1959 when he began part time work on shellfish culture for the Federal Bureau of Commercial Fisheries that was later reorganized as part of NOAA. He first worked with the staff at the Milford Connecticut Laboratory that was directed by Victor Loosanoff, and included Harry Davis, Rene Ukeles, Clyde Mackenzie... , Warren Landers and Paul Chanley. After college, Ed returned to work for BCF/NOAA doing research on many practical aspects of shellfish culture. He took a year or so off from the Feds in 1969-1970 to work in private aquaculture growing shrimp, pompano and spiny lobsters for Inmont Corporation (later Carrier) in the Florida keys and then for Long Island Oyster Farms in Northport, New York where he was in charge of larval production in a very large shellfish hatchery. He returned to Milford and NOAA in 1970 and remained there until 1990 when he left to start a large scallop aquaculture operation in Chile that is still running strong. After Chile, Ed worked in Mexico developing hatchery and grow-out techniques for pen shells. In 1997 he returned to NOAA, taking the position as Aquaculture Coordinator for the National Marine Fisheries Service. Ed retired from NOAA in the fall of 2001, and moved back to Connecticut to resume running Aquatecnics and as the Executive Director of the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association. In 2007, he began working as the Co-Director of the Aquaculture & Sustainability Division of Phillips Foods, Inc. He is currently Executive Director of the NFI Crab Council. Ed's CVRead More