In Memoriam: Fred S. Conte Fred S. Conte, UC Davis Cooperative Extension Aquaculture Specialist, passed away on February 19, 2021. Dr. Conte was born March 10, 1940 in Houston, Texas to Dr. Raphael and Etta Conte. He has one older brother, Frank. He met his wife, Elisabeth “Beth” (Bailey) Conte of Galveston, Texas while she was attending the Texas A&M Marine Lab. They were married shortly after Beth graduated from college in June, 1967 in Sacred Heart Church, Galveston, Texas. Fred received his B.S. in 1963 in Biology from Lamar State College of Technology, and his M.S. and PhD, in 1966 and 1972, in Zoology, and Invertebrate Biology with a Biological Oceanography minor, from Texas A&M University (TAMU), respectively. Fred’s professional career in aquaculture began at TAMU in 1971 where he served as an Extension Mariculture Specialist, covering saltwater aquaculture. He was involved in building the Corpus Christi, TAMU Shrimp …