Neil Sims

About Neil

• Says the mission of Kampachi Farms is to “soften man’s footprints on the seas.”
• Grew up in Australia and says he “wasted” his entire youth goofing off at the beach, surfing and snorkeling.
• He earned a bachelor’s degree in marine biology and biological oceanography, and a master’s in zoology and animal biology.
• When he was in school, he remembers a class briefly touching on aquaculture, but at the time it didn’t appeal to him.
• Served as the senior research fisheries officer for the Cook Islands, and started to see the acute effects of overfishing.
• Says that three billion people are going to rise into the middle class by 2050, and they’ll want to eat more protein.
• He knows fishing to feed the planet isn’t going to be sustainable for much longer—his solution is sustainable fisheries.
• Started Kampachi Farms to find better ways to build ocean pens and raise marine fish in a humane, green way.