Shrimp aquaculture industry veteran Dr. Don Lightner, former IntraFish and Fish Farming InternationalAquaculture Person of the Year, plans to retire in early October, he confirmed to IntraFish Friday.
As the global shrimp farming industry buzzed around early mortality syndrome (EMS) in 2012 and 2013, Lightner had been working for several years on getting to the bottom of the disease that was wiping out shrimp throughout Asia.
Finally, in mid-2013, Lightner and his team made the discovery that the pathogen was caused by bacteria.
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