Aquaculture & Fisheries

Biography

Junda Lin is a Director for Institute for Marine Research (IMR). IMR was designed to coordinate the management of shared marine facilities in the university, including the Vero Beach Marine Laboratory (http://research.fit.edu/vbml/) and the Evinrude Marine Operations Center (http://research.fit.edu/anchorage/). It also encourages inter-disciplinary research and integrates marine related activities with external governmental and non-governmental institutions, foundations, agencies and industry

Research Interest

Junda Lin lab focus is to develop aquaculture technology for marine ornamental species. Virtually all of the marine fishes and invertebrates marketed in the aquarium trade industry are collected from coral reef ecosystems. Extensive and destructive collection of these animals can directly deplete the target species that already under threat from habitat loss or degradation and indirectly damage the delicate coral reef ecosystem. Aquaculture of marine ornamental species is recognized as a viable alternative to wild collection