Douglas Bush, MS
General Manager
The Cultured Abalone Farm
Goleta, CA

Doug Bush has been working in commercial aquaculture development since 1998. He has an accumulated experience of wet, hands-on work with freshwater and seawater, in tanks and in the ocean, raising and studying fin fish, shellfish, and seaweeds for both research and private commercial projects. He has a Master's degree from the University of California, Davis in Animal Science where he worked to develop recirculating system design and protein nutrition optimization of California Halibut at the Bodega Marine Laboratory. He has been at The Cultured Abalone Farm in Goleta, California since 2004, where he is currently General Manager and partner. The Cultured Abalone Farm raises the native California red abalone in a land based system on diet of locally harvested and site cultivated seaweeds, and is committed to pushing the development of shellfish culture in California as a sustainable and valuable local seafood.