Hatch Blue

Driving Impact from Day One

Hatch Blue was founded on the vision of producing sustainable seafood with minimal negative impact to benefit oceans, ecosystems, and future generations.

Our Approach to a Sustainable Seafood Future

We believe aquaculture is essential to meet global protein demand in a sustainable way. The intricate and challenging nature of this endeavor requires deep expertise. This is why we adopted a knowledge-driven, specialist approach.

Our Theory of Change

Aquaculture as a Solution

We firmly believe that aquaculture, done responsibly, is a key solution to feeding the planet with minimal negative impact. On average, seafood has a has a smaller carbon footprint than other animal proteins. This is a promising start, but we have a long way to go to produce 100% sustainable fish.

Advancing Sustainable Aquaculture

We're committed to substantially improving aquaculture from feed to fork. This implies working with existing industry to improve current practices, and developing entirely new solutions with innovators.

Our Approach

Dual-approach

We believe a multi-faceted approach to implement sustainable practices with existing industry stakeholders and to simultaneously explore new frontiers to better capture opportunities ahead.

Long-term oriented

We are in it for the long-run. By consistently playing to our strengths, we hope to compound impact with time and contribute to a more resilient and equitable seafood system.

Incremental and systemic change

We place equal emphasis on every-day improvements and systematic changes

Be honest and realistic

We know that not everything can be classified as impactful and much of our impact work may never yield visible results.

Together, across the Hatch Blue teams, we tackle impact from multiple perspectives and aim to improve:

Transparency

We believe insights enable positive change, and we distribute knowledge through on the ground reporting (e.g. Seaweed Insights and Global Shrimp Report) and The Fish Site’s thorough editorial coverage.

Innovation

We believe innovation improves existing practices. At the core of our daily work, we support entrepreneurs, industries and governments in their efforts to implement innovation.

Connecting people

By promoting collaboration and knowledge-sharing among experts, innovators, farmers, officials, distributors and other stakeholders, we cultivate a community capable of addressing complex challenges and discovering new opportunities.

Gender equality

We recognize the blatant gender gap in the aquaculture industry. Through our Women in Ocean Foods initiatives, we actively pursue a more balanced, inclusive and therefore robust ecosystem.

We aim to create positive impact across environmental and social outcomes

Climate

Reduce CO2 footprint

Climate change adaptation

Biodiversity & Ecosystems

Restoring ocean and coastal ecosystems

Remove excessive nitrogen & phosphorus

Reduce the use of harmful substances

Social

Strengthen local communities

Animal welfare

Increase animal welfare

Case Study

New Frontiers of Impact Investing

In 2020, Hatch Blue together with the Nature Conservancy developed a first-of-its-kind impact fund dedicated to the blue economy. The Blue Revolution Fund (BRF)’s impact framework includes three unique features:

Fund-Level Impact Targets

From the outset, BRF defined and quantified six impact targets at the fund level before identifying specific investment opportunities.

Independent Monitoring and Reporting

The Nature Conservancy, an independent, science-based organization, monitors and verifies BRF’s impact data, offering investors a strong assurance of integrity and reliability.

Aligned Incentive Structure

50% of the fund’s carried interest is contingent on achieving the fund-level impact targets.

BRF is committed to transparency and open dialogue. We make our impact report publicly available and encourage feedback to refine and enhance our impact framework and practices.