Lukas Manomaitis is the Managing Director of Seafood Consulting Associates and has worked professionally in the aquaculture industry since 1995. His primary client is the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) where he has worked for almost 25 years to promote the use of U.S. Soy products in aquaculture internationally. This includes working on the expansion of the USSEC Aquaculture Program from China to a global program in 2002, the expansion of the In-Pond Raceway System (IPRS) technology from China to a global program starting in 2015 and helping to conceptualize and create the International Aquaculture Feed Formulation Database (IAFFD). He helped update the USSEC IPRS Manual in 2022 to better clarify the principles of IPRS and describe the basic standard for the technology. He currently works with USSEC as the Technical Director - Aquaculture (Southeast Asia & Oceania) and leads a multinational team regionally, as well as helping the USSEC Aquaculture Program globally.
He is based in Thailand and travels often in the Southeast Asian region and internationally. He served as an officer in the World Aquaculture Society (as the Asia-Pacific Chapter President), is a member of the Asian Fisheries Society, and is a member of the Global Seafood Alliance’s Standards Oversight Committee. He works closely with the global aquaculture industry to improve approaches across the aquaculture production chain. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and Auburn University.
