Dean was born on 5 October 1931 and passed away recently, a little more than a week after his 80th birthday. He grew up in Minnesota. Dean joined the U.S. Army and, in 1950-51, served in the Korean War. That war made a big impression on him. He was wounded two or three times and had incredible stories, including being under fire in a foxhole along with the "enemy." In the 1970s he owned and ran a fishing boat in the Caribbean and had a crew diving for spiny lobsters. The mid 1980s marked his ventureinto aquaculture research and he was most interested in tilapia aquaculture. He became well known at conferences and was ravenous for information, academic as well as what was happening in the real world. He traveled the world to see aquaculture facilities and became a walking aquaculture encyclopedia.
展开▼
