I visited an indigenous family to learn about artisanal fishing. I left feeling it was about much more than that. Pablo and his father, Luis, welcomed me at their family restaurant in Maicolpue. A fishing village in the south of Chile. Like the majority of people here, their family is Mapuche, the indigenous people of this area. The restaurant is closed, and it’s just the three of us there. We sit down on soft chairs. A tray of freshly made empanadas is placed on a side table

Patagonia’s aquaculture needs “entrepreneurial samurais”. Could that be you? Argentinian Patagonia holds a huge potential to develop its ocean economy, particularly sustainable aquaculture.  What is holding it back is the lack of people. Historically, this remote area has lived with its back to the ocean, more focused on agriculture, animal farming, and extracting industries (oil and gas). Yet, there is everything here for the creation of a thriving ocean economy hub. Along t

Remediating seabed pollution from fish farms. Using nanobubbles. It’s inevitable. Farming fish with open nets in the ocean adds organic matter (fish excrement and residual feed) that wouldn’t otherwise be there. The residue falls to the seabed (or seafloor). If you get too much of it, the seabed can turn anoxic – effectively suffocating due to lack of oxygen. I met with  Jose P. Puga , co-founder and CEO at  ChucaoTech , at their office in Puerto Varas. This Chilean startup d

Débora Coronado was born and raised in Puerto Cisnes, a very small town at the top of a fjord in Chilean Patagonia. Growing up, she felt trapped and isolated in her hometown. She’s always wanted to travel and see the world. She was a really good student, and so she managed to get a scholarship to go to college in Utah (US), where she studied marketing and business. After college, she struggled with stress and lack of purpose. She decided she needed to come back home. That was

What if you’re wrong? How often do you challenge the assumptions you operate by? Yesterday, I sat down with  Catalina Cendoya , Director of  The GSFR | Global Salmon Farming Resistance . We met at  Por el Mar 's Buenos Aires head office – an organisation dedicated to ocean conservation. It was a really open and honest conversation, looking at all the different perspectives. A nice way to get out of my bubble and challenge my own assumptions. Aristotle supposedly said, “The ma