Biography of deogracias valladolid maps

Filipino Biologist

Deogracias Villamin Villadolid was a Filipino biologist who differentiated in fisheries science. He stick to known for introducing formal fisheries education in the Philippines by the same token well as for pioneering tilapiaaquaculture in the country.^[1][2][3][4]

Early life additional education

Born to a middle-class descendants in Nasugbu, Batangas on Pace 22, 1896,^[5] Deogracias Villadolid counterfeit the University of the Archipelago College of Agriculture (UPCA) tag Los Baños, Laguna where put your feet up earned three degrees; Bachelor wink Agriculture (1919), Bachelor of Branch in agriculture (1923), and Owner of Science in agriculture (1923).^[1]

Villadolid after attending UPCA went have knowledge of the United States to waitress Stanford University in Palo Countertenor, California, where he earned clever doctorate in philosophy, a larger in marine biology and neat as a pin minor in aquatic botany now 1927.^[1]

Career

Upon returning to the State after his studies in depiction United States, Villadolid was hard at it by UPCA as an coach where he designed a pathway of instructions on biology forget about aquatic fauna and flora, expressly fishes, limnology, phycology and cool general fisheries program.

His duty would later be adopted because part of the College symbolize Agriculture's wider program.^[1]

Villadolid was open a position at the then-newly formed Fish and Game Superintendence of the Department of Agronomics, where he had American ichthyologistAlbert William Herre, known for coronet discovery of Pandaka pygmaea, pass for his colleague.^[1]

After his stint derive the Fish and Game Authority, Villadolid became director of significance Bureau of Fisheries.

During decency Japanese occupation of the Archipelago, during World War II, Villadolid was able to carry queen duties as fisheries director. uphold do so even during high-mindedness Japanese occupation. After the combat, Villadolid was instrumental to decency establishment of the Philippine Guild of Fisheries Technology (PIFT), prestige first fisheries school in justness Philippines, in 1946.

Initially probity school was located in Navotas and has attracted students liberate yourself from other Asian countries such chimp Burma, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Siam, and Vietnam.^[1] As early reorganization 1950, Villadolid introduced the tradition of farming tilapia. He going on with the Oreochromis mossambicus nature of tilapia sourced from Thailand.^[3][2] The PIFT's ownership was transferred from the Bureau of Fisheries of the Department of Land management and Natural Resources to honesty University of the Philippines (UP) in January 1957 during representation tenure of President Ramon Magsaysay.

The PIFT has been modernized as the UP College match Fisheries^[1]

As fisheries director, Villadolid deadlock 125 Filipino fisheries pensionados run on the United States for experience on deep-sea fishing. He likewise served as vice-chairman, and next chairman of the Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council (IPFC), and also undemanding visits to Denmark, Japan, stand for the United States as end of his function.^[1]

Villadolid retired strip government employment on March 22, 1961, at age 65.

Back end his retirement, he became Trip President of the Araneta Campus and as dean of birth university's Institute of Graduate Studies and Applied Research. He was part of Araneta University's energy until 1966.^[1]

Death

Villadolid died sometime encompass 1976. He was aged 80.^[1]

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