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I have been lucky enough to spend most of my life near the sea. Coastal folk across the globe will probably tell you that there is a certain alluring charm about the beach, and they’re not wrong. In the city of Chennai, the friendly yet sprawling fishing community has been a big part of that charm.

Living in the capital of Tamil Nadu and one of India’s busiest coastal cities, it is almost impossible not to get entwined with the marine fishers. Slightly over a million of them ply their trade across the state’s 1,000-kilometer coastline.

However, due to a lack of feasible alternatives, they deploy outdated - and in some places illegal - fishing methods like bottom trawling. This practice destroys the natural seafloor habitat by essentially rototilling the seabed, causing irreparable damage to the marine ecology.

The scenario above is screaming for technological intervention, and aquaculture may just provide the right solution. Today, we take a deep dive into Indonesia-based eFishery’s massive funding round and its ambitions of international expansion, with its eyes firmly set on India and other Southeast Asian markets.

THE BIG STORY

CALLING SOUTHEAST ASIA’S FEMALE FOUNDERS

What’s it like being a female founder in Southeast Asia? What are the challenges you face in running and growing your business? What do you think needs to be done to step up entrepreneurship among women in the region?

That’s what Tech in Asia hopes to find out. As part of our upcoming International Women’s Day campaign, we’re conducting a survey to shed light on your experiences, creating a snapshot of the ups and downs of your entrepreneurial journey and painting a picture of what it’s like being a female founder in the region.

If you fit the bill, we’d love to hear from you. Please share your insights with us here.

TRENDING NEWS

EVENTS HAPPENING

• Fast Forward with HPE! on January 13
  A multistage B2B startup competition specially crafted to help scale and grow early-stage technology startups across the APAC region. Catch the top 10 startups now as they pitch to a panel of esteemed judges and find out which team made it to the finals!
• *Event* Ask Me Anything about NFTs on January 14
  Ask all your questions to Alan Seng, the founder of Dark Zodiac, a Singapore NFT project that made S$1.4 million (around US$1 million) after selling all of its 3,876 NFTs in 80 minutes.
• AWS SaaS Forum on February 17
  Join the AWS SaaS Forum on February 17 to uncover opportunities and insights on SaaS trends, outlook for 2022 and how to build your business playbook. Attendance is complimentary.

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