Aquaculture bioscience company Benchmark has hired Pablo Mazo as general manager at Benchmark Genetics Chile, Benchmark's long-term project in the Latin-American country.

Mazo joins the company from Chilean salmon producer Ventisqueros, where he was technical team manager. He also held several managing roles leading technical departments in other salmon producers as well as at Intesal, the technical department of Chilean Salmon Farmers Association SalmonChile.