Primary Job Title Chief Scientist Primary Organization 
Acadia Harvest
Gender Male
Tap Pryor is a marine biologist who has won two international awards for innovation in aquaculture. He founded Sea Life Park and the Oceanic Institute in Hawaii, the latter entirely devoted to aquaculture research. He was a Hawaii State Senator and was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to a Commission that wrote the National Ocean Program that
led to the creation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He has been a principal investigator in DARPA- and ONR-funded research at the Duke University Marine Laboratory and University of Hawaii’s then-Eniwetok Marine laboratory. Tap has experience growing fish, algae and oysters in a land-based integrated system and was awarded a patent for his innovation. He received his BA in English from Cornell University and completed graduate studies in marine biology at the University of Hawaii.
