Dr. Paul Olin

Olin works as a CASGEP advisor in the University of California Sea Grant Extension Program based administratively at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.  Olin lives and works in Santa Rosa where he conducts applied research and extension programs in aquaculture with activities related to aquaculture policy as well as the culture of shellfish and emerging opportunities for offshore culture of finfish.  Shellfish research includes evaluating field performance of hybrid and selected Pacific oysters to increase production and enhance disease resistance. In Northern California, he is engaged in monitoring recovery of endangered coho salmon in the Russian River as a partner in a broadly based multi-agency partnership engaged in the Endangered Coho Salmon Captive Broodstock Recovery Program.

Olin is a member of the U.S. – Japan Natural Resources Panel on Aquaculture, the NOAA-Korea Joint Coordination Panel for Aquaculture Cooperation, and the California Aquaculture Development Committee.  He is currently collaborating with Department of Fish and Game Aquaculture Coordinator, Heather MacIntire, to review and edit a Programmatic Environmental Impact Review of Marine Aquaculture.

Prior to his work with CASGEP, he coordinated an international training program in shrimp aquaculture and was the aquaculture specialist for the University of Hawaii Sea Grant Program.  He earned a bachelor's in biology from the University of Miami, a master's in animal science at UC Davis, and a doctorate in zoology at the University of Hawaii.

Selected Publications

Olin, P.G. 2010.  GM salmon are well-regulated, safe.

Olin, P.G., Smith, J., and N. Rashid. 2010. Review of aquaculture production in North America, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations.

Tom, P.D. and Olin, P.G. Farmed or Wild? Both Types of Salmon Taste Good and Are Good for You. The Global Aquaculture Advocate, May/June 2010.

Burge, CA, Judah, LR, Conquest, LL, Griffin, FJ, Cheney, DP, Suhrbier, A, Vadopalas, B, Olin, PG, Renault, T, & CS Friedman. 2007. Summer seed mortality of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas Thunberg grown in Tomales Bay, California, USA: the influence of oyster stock, planting time, pathogens, and environmental stressors. Journal of Shellfish Research 26 (1): 163–172.

Kim, Young-Ja; Zhang, Chang-Ik; Park, In-Seok; Na, Jong-Hun; Olin, Paul. 2008. Sexual Dimorphism in Morphometric Characteristics of Korean Chub Zacco koreanus (Pisces, Cyprinidae). Journal of Ecology and Field Biology, v.31, no.2, pp.107-113.

Hossain, Mostafa A. R., M. Nahiduzzaman, M. Abu Sayeed, M. Ekram Azim, M. Abdul Wahab, Paul G. Olin. 2009. The Chalan beel in Bangladesh: habitat and biodiversity degradation, and implications for future management. Lakes Reserv.: Res. Manage. Vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 3-19.