Chile is a top fishing and aquaculture producer, but its resources have been severely depleted due to unsustainable fishing practices. Over half of commercial fisheries are overexploited or depleted, putting livelihoods, marine biodiversity, and coastal economic activities at risk.

The supply chain suffers from perverse economic incentives, opaque intermediation dynamics, and weak regulation and enforcement, giving small-scale fishers little to no negotiating power against powerful intermediaries.

ABALOBI and Future of Fish Chile (FoF Chile) are working to address this problem. FoF Chile works with fishers, governments, and the supply chain to create a self-sustaining system that enables the recovery of fisheries while benefiting local communities.

FoF Chile and ABALOBI have been working together in the Pacheco Altamirano artisanal fishermen's community in San Antonio, Chile, to bring full transparency to the value chain. Fishers record their catches and value-added products, and buyers can see where, how, and by whom their products were caught by scanning a QR code associated with the product, which is printed on the packaging. The app has also been launched in two additional communities in Region Aysen, Puerto Gala and Puerto Gaviota, where several successful trials have demonstrated not only that fisher-level traceability is viable within the artisanal southern hake fishery in the area, but also that consumers value knowing the provenance of the product.