Maurice Musebe

Over 7-year progressive experience in data driven Aquaculture. Being a in BSc Fisheries and Aquaculture graduate, my initial journey was doing most of the field work and hands-on job like training and extension services. I also took time working in Ponds, hatchery, Lake fish handling and feeding sections.

This enabled me have a clear understanding of fish culture practices before joining Strategy and operations section, where I have been progressively working for the last 3 years. I believe that data driven Aquaculture is essential in making proactive and non-reactive decisions in Fish farming.

Aqua Planning & Reporting Supervisor -VICTORY FARMS

June 2019 - Date

Duties and Responsibilities

• Fish Appraisal for grading, handling practices, feed type change and net mesh size exchange.
• Aqua-Manager software super-This is an application for production planning, production management and cost analysis, specifically designed for the aquaculture industry.
• Maintain and automate production KPI dashboards 
• Preparing of monthly reports for high level management decision making. 
• Developing daily feed ratios using specific feed rate and FCR tables.
• Collecting, recording and analysis of water quality and production data
• Developing strategies for analyzing data, exploring and visualizing data.
• Training and developing team members.
• Fish health assessment and diagnosis of pathogenic infections.
• Heading and organizing mortality collection and counting team to ascertain actual survival figures and which production stage loses more fish to plan for corrective actions.

Graduate Aquaculture Learning and Training Program (GALT) –Hatchery Department -VICTORY FARMS 

February 2018-June 2019 Duties and Responsibilities:

• Pond preparation which includes liming, water filling and fertilsation & hapa setting
• Pond water quality management including water quality parameter testing.
• Daily monitoring of dissolved oxygen and temperature. 
• Inventory maintenance of alum, fertilizer, lime, aerators, hapa nets, galvanized pipes etc. 
• Monthly evaluation of the team’s performance on scorecards. 
• Efficient transfer of fingerlings from pond to cages 
• Calculation of survival rates and Growth per day.
• Preparation of feed ratios and feeding 
• Egg collection 
• Incubation of tilapia eggs.

Aquaculture Trainer -Agricultural Sector Development Support Programme (ASDSP), Nandi County 

October 2015-December 2017 Duties and Responsibilities:

Training fish farmers on the following skills.

• Tilapia and catfish fingerlings production. 
• Pond construction, repair and management. 
• Fish feed formulation, administration and storage. 
• Fish farming as a business and business plan development. 
• Climate smart aquaculture as a response to climate change; Fish post-harvest technologies. 
• Marketing skills and customer relation. 
• Aquaculture record keeping. 
• Fisheries Laws, Regulations and Policies. 

Intern – Department of Fisheries Kakamega County, Kenya.

July 2015-Sepember 2015

Duties and Responsibilities

• Aquaculture systems design and construction. 
• Analyzing fisheries data and preparing of reports. 
• Undertaking fisheries extension services. 
• Assisting in fish marketing and value addition. 
• Maintaining of ponds at fish farms and hatcheries. 

Attaché- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) Kisumu Centre.

October 2013-December 2013

Trained in

• Fisheries socioeconomics 
• Chemical analysis of fresh Water 
• Aquarium construction and management
• Fresh water microbiology.
• Value addition in Fish.

Bachelor of Science, Fisheries Management and Aquaculture Technology (South-Eastern Kenya University) 2nd class Upper -2015.

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (Butula Boys High School), B-plain-2009