Rick Barrows

Rick Barrows is the founder of Aquatic Feed Technologies a consulting company focused on the development of sustainable aquaculture feeds. He also serves as Chief Scientific Officer of the Feed Innovation Network. Prior to this, he served for 13 years as a Lead Scientist and Nutritionist for the Trout Grains Project of the Agricultural Research Service/USDA. His research focused on the development of fishmeal and fish oil-free diets for trout and other species. Prior to this he worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service developing feeds for a variety of fish species for recreation, food, and threatened and endangered species with feeds for all life stages. During the last 28 years, he has over 130 peer-reviewed publications. In 2008 he was selected to be a member of the Aquaculture Protein Center in Norway and in 2011 he received the Outstanding Commercialization Success award for the development of improved feed and trout from the Federal Lab Consortium for Technology Transfer. In 2012 he received the Excellence in Aquaculture award from the Illinois Soybean Association and the Senior Research Scientist of the Year Award, PWA, from the Agricultural Research Service. In 2016 he received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Aquaculture Society, U.S. Chapter.