Nearly 10 years after its first, tentative step into open ocean cobia aquaculture, Open Blue has fashioned itself into a vertically-integrated, offshore champion of the once-unknown species.
After working closely with the University of Miami to develop technology around new fish species in the tropics of Puerto Rico, Open Blue Founder Brian O'Hanlon founded the company and had a focus on farming in the open ocean, he told IntraFish.
After looking everywhere "from Mexico to Brazil and a number of countries in between," O'Hanlon and his team settled on Panama, for a number of reasons.
"One
