Dr. Jim McVey

Dr. Jim McVey, Vice President of Research and Operations, Indigo Seafood, a seafood production company dedicated to certified, quality products and ecosystem health.

He continues to work with NOAA on special assignments to Indonesia and Korea. He is also Director of Research and Education/Government Relations for the Gulf Coast Marine Life Center, a new aquaculture company in Destin, Florida wishing to build a hatchery and Aquarium for the Gulf Coast.

Dr. McVey is retired from a long career with NOAA as Program Director for Aquaculture for the National Sea Grant College program. While in this position he was responsible for running national competitions for marine aquaculture, oyster disease and Gulf Coast oyster issues. He served as state monitor for over 15 different states and served on the executive committee of the Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture. He also served as US Chair of the International technical exchanges with Japan, China and Korea for over a decade. He has received the Bronze and Silver Awards from the Department of Commerce. He has published five major books on the subject of aquaculture and nearly fifty journal and book chapters on the same subject. He was instrumental in drafting the Department of Commerce Aquaculture Policy that was signed by the Secretary of Commerce in 1999 and he worked on the initial draft of the Offshore Aquaculture legislation that is now before Congress.