Dr. Jae-Yoon Jo is a full professor and has been teaching and conducting research at Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea since 1990. He had been a professor at Cheju National University for 12 years (1978 – 1990). He served as the Dean of the College of Fisheries Sciences in Pukyong National University for 2 years (2000-2002). He also served as the President of the Korean Aquaculture Society from 2002 to 2004 and as an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Aquaculture Society for 4 years (1991-1994). He is now the elected President of the Korean Fisheries Society for a one year term (2007 – 2008).
He obtained his PhD degree from Auburn University, Alabama in 1988. He received his BSc and MSc degrees at the National Fisheries University of Pusan, Busan, Korea in 1972 and 1974, respectively.
His major current research focus is on the environmentally friendly intensive aquaculture system especially for developing highly intensive but simple and stable recirculating aquaculture systems. Pumps are the only moving part of the system. Fish farmers can easily maintain 100 – 150 kg of tilapia, common carp or other freshwater fish per cubic meter of tank water volume. He is also interested in the treatment of aquaculture effluent from fish farms. He recently finished a 3-year government project on the effluent treatment from semi-recirculating system for rainbow trout.
He has published over 80 scientific papers in professional journals and many more in books, conference proceedings, and the like.
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Department of Aquaculture Pukyong National University Busan 608-737 REPUBLIC OF KOREA E-mail: jyjo@pknu.ac.kr