July 8, 2013
Aller Aqua appoints manager for new research arm
Fish feed company, Aller Aqua, has appointed aqua feed nutritionist, Florian Nagel, as research manager of the newly founded Aller Aqua Research GmbH, a part of the firm's research and development department.
Nagel has strong technical experiences in fish nutrition including raw materials evaluation, design of sustainable aqua feeds, digestibility and feeding experiments, and energy requirement and stress physiology of different species.
Starting up as a biologist with a key focus on fisheries science and aquaculture, Nagel was also involved in operations in regards to stock assessment and management of diadromous fish species as well as reproduction and nutrition of carp, perch, eel and trout.
Nagel was made research associate at the Thuenen-Institute of Fisheries Ecology, Germany, after his doctoral examination at the University of Goettingen.