From seafood deliveryman to fish expert

Qualified professional: Soe posing with his polytechnic diploma in aquaculture and a red snapper at The Fish Farmer fish farm. — The Straits Times/ANN

Soe Pyae Kyaw, 39, who hails from Myanmar, stumbled into fish farming four years after working as a seafood deliveryman in Singapore.

In 2019, when the manager at the Changi fish farm he was working for left, Soe was thrust into managing the coastal farm.