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.
Scott Lindell
Scott Lindell is a marine biologist with 15 years of commercial fish farming experience prior to returning to full-time research and development in 2002. As the Director of the Scientific Aquaculture Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory from 2004 - 2016, he conducted research on improving methods for culturing fish, shellfish and seaweeds in cooperation with natural resource management agencies and commercial enterprises. Recently funded projects include development of partnerships and methods for open-ocean mussel and seaweed farming. He is a leading national proponent for the expansion of offshore marine farming, and was responsible for obtaining permits of the first commercial aquaculture lease in Federal waters of the East Coast in 2014. He advises offshore aquaculture developments in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Alaska, California and Morocco.
Lindell has lead mussel farming workshops in the past with international leaders of the industry. Their proceedings are available here:
http://www.mbl.edu/bell/scientific-aquaculture/2011-mussel-farming-workshop/
http://www.mbl.edu/bell/scientific-aquaculture/2013-mussel-farming-workshop/
Education: 1988 - M.S. Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; 1985 Fulbright/ITT Fellowship, Dept. of Genetics, University of Stockholm, Sweden; 1980 - B.A.Biology, University of California, Berkeley.