Dan Martino

Dan is President of his local Farm Bureau chapter and sits on the Executive Committee for the Massachusetts Farm Bureau, Massachusetts Aquaculture Association, and the Shellfish Growers Climate Coalition.

He is the Chairman of the Oak Bluffs Shellfish Committee and served on Governor Baker’s Massachusetts Ocean Acidification Council, the NOAA Sanctuary Advisory Council, and USDA’s Natural Alignment of Mariculture Seaweed Organic Certification Guidelines working group.

Dan has participated with some of the most prestigious companies and organizations in the world on cutting-edge ocean farming experiments, and following the release of “The Oyster Book” in 2024 (Agate Publishing), he has been working with multiple higher education institutions to create aquaculture college-level courses.