How Scotsman Ramie Murray started his first ever edible oyster farm in the UAE, Dibba Bay Oysters

How Scotsman Ramie Murray started his first ever edible oyster farm in the UAE, Dibba Bay Oysters

From a quiet market town in Scotland, called Cupar, Ramie Murray’s family moved to bustling, sunny Dubai when he was 12. This was 1993. Growing up in the UAE, Murray had one ambition – to start a sustainable business. Now, the 42-year-old Dubai resident owns the first ever locally grown edible oyster farm in the UAE with production of over 400,000 oysters monthly and the shellfish from his farm are being eaten at top restaurants across the country. Murray went to school in Dubai and briefly returned to Scotland for university. Coming back to the UAE after graduating, he started his first business. It was very different from what he does now as founder and CEO of Dibba Bay Oysters, he started a graphic design company. Starting an enterprise was natural to him, his mother also ran her own business in the UAE. “Starting my own thing seemed normal,” Murray said. “I studied industrial design and product design but aquaculture and the food industry were always something that interested me,” he said. He then moved into the renewable energy business in Oman and worked on a solar energy farm. Working there, he started looking into lobster farming. “Growing up I