AquaMatrix Logo (c) Original pencil art by Montana artist Cheri Burke, 1990.	AquaMatrix International, Inc. is a group of highly motivated fisheries professionals who provide innovative technologies and solutions to enable sustainable fisheries and aquaculture development, worldwide. Founded in 1987, the Wyoming-based company has a continuing mandate of guiding sustainable fisheries projects throughout the developing and developed world. We have completed fisheries/aquaculture projects in Southeast and Central Asia; the Americas and Western Europe; the Middle East; and in West, South and East Africa.
AquaMatrix's demonstrated areas of expertise: * Project Manager and Principal Investigator of major fisheries projects, worldwide. Clients include U.S. Agency for International Development, Asian Development Bank, National Science Foundation, Foreign Agriculture Service, and U.S. Department of Agriculture in addition to the private sector. * Applied research addressing sustainable fish and natural resource interactions and relationships. These include the current efforts regarding fish, halophytic plants and Coal Bed Methane (CBM) discharge waters. * Species-specific culture requirements, and water quality influences on fish and prawn health and growth in high-density systems. * Optimum aquaculture system design for hatchery, nursery and grow-out of fish and prawns, utilizing appropriate technologies and site-specific resources. Designs have included closed-system biofiltration, oxygen injection, and Artemia production. * Aquaculture system management, growth programming. * Health management programs, water quality management strategies, system troubleshooting, and disease diagnostics of finfish and prawns. * The application of the latest hormone-induced spawning and hatchery techniques, and all facets of broodstock management. * Extension services and transfer of technology via seminars and manuals, and continuing education for facility staff. * Detailed aquaculture production analyses and complete business plans, including market entry analyses, processing requirements, and U.S. FSIS sanitation and HACCP processing guidelines.	In Tanzania, plotting the site for the proposed semi-intensive prawn farm on the Wami River flood plain. All water management strategies will be achieved by tidal exchange.
John Woiwode in Basra, Iraq, 2004	Dr. Woiwode, Fisheries Scientist and President of AquaMatrix International, Inc., has provided fisheries/aquaculture technical services and expertise worldwide. His active participation in and vision for international fisheries development began 30 years ago as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines, where he functioned as hatchery manager, producing Asiatic Carps and tilapia for regional distribution. His education includes B.Sc. Fisheries and Wildlife Resources and M.Sc. Fishery Resources degrees from the University of Idaho, and Ph.D. Fisheries degree from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Woiwode has continually sought to complement his academic background with hands-on aquaculture/fisheries experience: he has designed, constructed, operated and trained the management for aquaculture systems that have ranged from extensive pond to intensive thermal systems, working with species as diverse as black tiger prawns to Pacific threadfin to Barbus cyprinids. He has an in-depth understanding of and hands-on working experience with all the necessary components, from hatchery and production operations to processing/HACCP requirements and product market entry, that ensure the success of aquaculture ventures under a wide variety of conditions.
The AquaMatrix web page provides an overview of primary types of projects engaged. Click on tabs for International Fisheries, Aqua System Design, or Coal Bed Methane Aquaculture for more details. For additional information please contact: AquaMatrix International, Inc. 270 Veronica Lane, Suite D P.O. Box 2437 Jackson, Wyoming 83001 United States of America office: (307) 739-7185 fax: (307) 733-1715 e-mail: woiwodejon@cs.com	On the summit of Kings Peak, Utah, 13580', 2004.