Kick-starting the Caribbean's seaweed farming sector

Rob Fletcher, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture

Kick-starting the Caribbean's seaweed farming sector
Rosie Steggles on Unsplash

Can you briefly describe your aquaculture career?

It started in 2012 when I founded Catalina Sea Ranch and secured the first offshore aquaculture permit in US Federal waters from the US Army Corps of Engineers. The California Coastal Commission (CCC) has the right to determine if the permit is consistent with the Coastal Zone Act, which took another two years, but remarkably the project received unanimous approval.

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