As CEO of Australis Josh oversees the Company’s award-winning efforts to bring healthy, sustainable Barramundi to market under The Better Fish® brand.

 

Josh is an internationally recognized leader in the sustainable seafood movement who spent the last 25 years developing innovative approaches to aquaculture, beginning in his dorm at Hampshire College. Goldman pioneered the introduction of tilapia in the US and founded one of first tilapia farms (Bioshelters, Inc,) in 1985. In 1990, he founded AquaFuture, Inc., which raised hybrid striped bass until 2002. During this time, he also helped developed North America’s first commercial marine hatchery for cod and flounder (Great Bay Aquaculture, Inc.) and consulted on improving the environmental performance of aquaculture on four continents. He holds several patents on water re-use technologies and has served on government and industry panels for the National Marine Fisheries Service, the US Department of Agriculture and the Seafood Choices Alliance.  He has also worked in conjunction with prominent NGOs and foundations including the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Chefs Collaborative, Environmental Defense and the David Suzuki foundation and has won numerous awards, including the International Food Technologies’ Boloffi award for Most Innovative Food Production Technology and the prestigious Seafood Choices Alliance’s “Seafood Champion” award.