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MR. PRAMOTE SANGSUKSIRIKUL is an owner and manager of NEMOFARM . He was born in Bangkok on 28 April 1955. He is a 51 year old married man, with two children, both studying.
The farm owner has many years experience in the marine fish breeding field. He graduated from Kasetsart University in 1978 with a B.Sc. in Aquaculture. In 1978, He started his work in a Giant prawn breeding company. After two years, the company changed ownership and he became a researcher. His researches were concentrate on Giant prawn disease, Sea bass disease, Pearl oyster breeding, Phytoplankton culture and Sea bass breeding. As a result of his research, he was able to breed Pearl oyster to 15 cm. in diameter at the end of the project.
When he had enough experience, he set up his Sea bass Hatchery named PRAMOTEFARM at Chonburi province in 1983. He produces 15-18 day-old sea bass fries (about 20,000,000 fries per year) and sell to Thai farmers and export to Taiwan . Sometimes he produces post larva of Tiger shrimp and White shrimp depending on market demand. He also produces Red snapper eggs and fingerlings.
In his hatchery (PRAMOTEFARM), he has broodstock tanks of Seabass, Grouper, Redsnapper and Humpback grouper.
In August 2005, he applied for University Business Incubator of Burapha University and was trained in clownfish breeding techniques from Institute of Marine Science at Burapha University(BIMS). After the end of the course, he decided to set up a second farm name NEMOFARM where it is situated about 9 kms. from PRAMOTEFARM. The farm is under consultation of
Dr.Vorathep Muthuwan (Director of Institute of Marine Science) and his team at BIMS. At present, we are breeding 7 species of Clownfishes. Monthly production of the farm is about 10,000 fingerlings of Clownfishes which are export to foreign countries. Some fingerlings are sold in Thailand .

NEMOFARM has 54 Aquariums, 157 concrete tanks with capacity ranges from 0.2-75 m3 and total capacity of 770 cubic meters. The farm has nearly 200 pairs of broodstock of clownfishes.