Life anniversary, Ing. Josef Pokorný, CSc.

At the end of April 2024, a prominent Czech fisheries expert, Mr. Ing. Josef Pokorný, CSc. turns ninety years of age.  After graduating from the Secondary Fisheries School in Vodňany and the University of Agriculture in Brno - fisheries specialization, he worked at several plants of the State Fisheries Department and then at its headquarters in České Budějovice. In his professional work, he dealt with a number of problems in fish farming, including the performance testing and technology of intensive farming of rainbow trout as well as artificial propagation and rearing of tench fry. These topics, including artificial spawning of tench using hypophysation, were also the subject of his dissertation. Later he was employed at the Research Institute of Fisheries and Hydrobiology in Vodňany, where he held the position of Head of the Department of Genetics and Fish Breeding. Afterwards, he also worked as a teacher at the Secondary Fisheries School in Vodňany and at the University of South Bohemia. He is the author and co-author of several specialized books and fisheries textbooks still in use today. Congratulations on his life jubilee!