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

AQUIT  is an ocean biotech startup. I visited them yesterday at the Innovation Park in Buenos Aires and met with the CEO,  Daniela Allerbon . Daniela and her team have developed a technology to farm fish without antibiotics, replacing them with a protein that is naturally produced by the fish themselves.  They've started with salmon, already have an MVP for shrimp, and are now building an AI platform to transfer the technology to other forms of aquaculture and even land-based

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