These days our former colleague Ing. Pavel Hartman, CSc. After graduating from the Secondary School of Agriculture in Telč, he studied fisheries specialization at today's Mendel University in Brno. As a fresh graduate he joined the State Fishery Hluboká, o.z. in 1967 as an assistant zootechnician for fish breeding. Later, in 1971, he was transferred to the central laboratory of the State Fishery, o.p. in České Budějovice, where he continuously solved the most pressing problems of the branch enterprise, especially in relation to water quality and its chemistry. He also used his rich practical experience as a co-author of several textbooks of the Secondary Fishing School in Vodňany.
He completed two postgraduate studies and in 1992 defended his dissertation on "Determination of the need for liming of ponds in relation to environmental conditions". In the 1990s he started working for the city of České Budějovice, and gradually worked his way up to managing director of the city company that manages its forests and ponds. Since 2010, he has been actively teaching at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of South Bohemia and later at the University of South Bohemia, where he has taught professional subjects such as pond aquaculture, management, economics and subsidies of the enterprise and has been in charge of students' internships. He is the author and co-author of a number of scientific publications and several methodologies on carp feeding, liming and fertilization of ponds. In 2014, he published a new textbook, Practical Fish Farming, which was very positively received by the professional community and is now in its third edition. Congratulations on your life anniversary!
