A letter from a master student

Maya Fog

Khoi Dihn Pham is from Vietnam and started study programme in Aquaculture at Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences Autumn 2005. Just now he finished his master thesis and Khoi and his family will soon leave Norway and back to Vietnam.
Here is his story.

I’ve graduated from the University of Agriculture and Forestry (UAF) in Vietnam since 1999 and started working for the Research Institute for Aquaculture as the same time.

Khoi Dihn Pham at fish lab Foto: Private

I have been working for many projects such as:
Rural extension for Aquaculture in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam (READ project);

• Aquaculture of Indigenous Mekong fish species (AIMS projects)


• Selective breeding of Silver barb project


• Selective breeding of river catfish (pangasianodon hypophthalmus, Mekong catfish), etc.

My main task as well as my background is in fish selective breeding.

Thanks to media as well as information from my friends who have been the students at UMB, I knew that Norway is the leader in salmon aquaculture, and UMB would be the good place for me to improve my knowledge about fish selective breeding; Thus I have tried the best to be a student at UMB.

Being a student at UMB, I’m so please with what I was offered, especially the study environment, friendly and helpful people. My master thesis was about ‘’stress response in tilapia’’; that was belonged to fish physiology aspect.

However, we used stress treatment as a tool to reveal some thing very interesting about the variation of stress response between fish families, which is extremely important to apply to fish selective breeding, in which low stress responsiveness can be considered as a breeding goal. Fish welfare is being a most concern worldwide now a day.

I’m going to Vietnam in the end of this month. I will continue working with the selective breeding projects that have been carried out in the Mekong Delta. I am hoping to be a student again at UMB, Ph.D student of course :))

Best regards Khoi Dinh Pham




Oppdatert: 28.11.07
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